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__label__wiki	0.598601	0.598601	The Tissa De Silva Trust donates laboratory equipment to the National Hospital Colombo In the midst of challenging times and depleting resources, The Tissa De Silva Trust recently made a generous donation of sophisticated laboratory equipment valued at LKR 13 million required to function a state of the art PCR laboratory to the National Hospital of Colombo. The Tissa De Silva Trust was initiated in 1993 and works towards sponsoring the education of under privileged children, providing infrastructure to schools, aiding improvements to rural accessibility, and funding healthcare. Mr. Tissa De Silva left his estate for charity, particularly to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized sections of society, and is the youngest son of philanthropists Sir Ernest De Silva and Lady Evadne De Silva. Initial discussion between the board of trustees and Senior Consultant Cardiologist of the National Hospital Dr. Nimali Fernando were centered around the donation of equipment used by the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at NHSL Colombo. However, given the escalating situation in the country surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, both parties came to an agreement that the need of the hour is this much needed PCR laboratory to treat patients safely, as well as to provide a safe environment for health care workers. Therefore, a decision was made to donate essential equipment for this purpose. Furthermore, the resources would also be used in the testing process of other viruses such as dengue and influenza where annual cases in Sri Lanka remains high. The laboratory was officially declared open on the 12th of January in a ribbon cutting ceremony by Deputy Director General Health Services of the National Hospital Dr. Kumara Wickremasinghe and Oshan Senanayake of the Tissa De Silva Trust, followed by the plaque being unveiled by Dhevan Peiris of the Tissa De Silva Trust. Documents with details pertaining to the donation were also handed over to the Minister of Health Hon. Pavithra Wanniarachchi at the Ministry of Health premises. In appreciation of the efforts, Dr. Nimali Fernando states, “We are thankful to the Tissa De Silva Trust for such a generous and timely donation. In trying times like these, the hospital requires any and all support that can be extended towards our operations and the new equipment will greatly assist in the efficient treatment of our patients.” Speaking on the matter, Suranjan Perera of the board of trustees states, “We at the Trust are grateful that we are able to make a valuable donation in these challenging and uncertain times. The donation of the lab furthers Mr. Tissa De Silva’s goal of improving the lives of the less fortunate and is in line with the Trust’s future focus. We hope that the donation will prove to be useful for the operations of the National Hospital and contribute towards overcoming this pandemic.” Sri Lanka reopens for tourists from today	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line14
__label__wiki	0.887674	0.887674	Britain's Surrender Category: Islam By Stephen Brown FrontPageMagazine.com The place where Winston Churchill once so eloquently and forcefully rallied the British people to defeat the Nazi threat is now under siege from a new tyranny. Islamic intimidation achieved a new high last week when it forced the British Parliament, one of Western civilization's most venerable institutions, to quietly surrender its most basic of freedoms. Almost unreported in the Western media, including Britain’s, a Muslim member of the House of Lords, Nazir Ahmed, showed the advanced state of Britain’s dhimmitude when he threatened to mobilize 10,000 fellow Muslims to block Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker, Geert Wilders, from entering Westminster. Wilders had been invited by another House of Lords member to show his controversial film, Fitna, last Thursday in a Westminster conference room. Invitations had been sent to all House members to attend the screening that was to be followed "by discussion and debate in true parliamentary fashion." But Baron Ahmed, who was born in Pakistan and raised in Britain, forgetting he is part of a liberal democratic system that cherishes freedom of expression and association, reacted with familiar jihadi-style tactics to Wilders’ announced appearance. Along with his threat to mobilize 10,000 demonstrators to block Wilders’ path, it was reported Ahmed also intended to sue the House of Lords member who had invited the Dutch politician. However, that all proved unnecessary. After Ahmed and representatives of several British Muslim organizations met with the leader of the House of Lords and its chief whip, the Wilders visit was cancelled and British democracy suffered a crushing defeat. And while the British elites and media may have wanted to keep the British people in the dark regarding the scale of this debacle, Ahmed had no qualms about publicising it. Labelling it what it truly is, Ahmed told Pakistani media outlets that the British parliament’s retreat was "a victory for the Muslim community." Lord Ahmed, a Labour Party member, was appointed to the House of Lords in 1998 and, according to British law, is a peer for life. He is the first Muslim lord in the modern era and second in British parliamentary history. A predecessor, Baron Stanley of Alderley, had converted to Islam in 1862. Ahmed’s appointment was made possible when Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a major constitutional maneuver, "reformed" the House of Lords in 1999, abolishing all hereditary peerages Regarded as a "moderate" Muslim, Ahmed led the first British government-sponsored delegation on a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. He has opposed international terrorism, women wearing the veil and forced marriages in Britain. Risking his personal safety, Ahmed has also supported the expulsion of violent Islamic radicals from Great Britain. FAIR USE NOTICE: This article contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of religious, environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.536761	0.536761	Warning: Use of undefined constant user_level - assumed 'user_level' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /nfs/c07/h03/mnt/108934/domains/blog.readingthinkingandwriting.com/html/wp-content/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/ultimate_ga.php on line 524 The reading which lead to the thinking and writing Health Science Information Disclaimer ReadingThinkingAndWriting Thoughts on matters of relative importance SynapticSynthase Tag: Constitution The Founders: Death and Taxes by admin on Aug.01, 2011, under Current, History The impetus to form a new government to replace the Confederacy was born, majorly, from the fact that the Continental Congress had no power to levy taxes. There were, no doubt, other reasons that are easily demonstrated, but the one that reverberated with those who served through the Revolutionary War both in arms and in Congress was that of direct revenue. The situation near the end of the war echoes eerily today as the states engaged in a war that The Congress was in want of tax revenue to pay for and the debts incurred to do so, both foreign and domestic, threatened to destroy that which so much blood was spilled to gain. It wasn’t only the money owed in loans, but also that owned in salary to the very soldiers who fought so gallantly and with such self-sacrifice that some worried they would be thrown into debtor’s prison upon their discharge. The salaries weren’t even the worst of it. The soldiers were often starved and froze with no blankets which many of them had to cut up to make clothes. During the winter, their marches could be followed by the bloody footprints in the snow since they often went without even shoes. Many images of Valley Forge depict a desolate place were the rank and file starved in the dark of winter. However, in reality, the area of Pennsylvania where they were in camp was some of the most fertile soil in the states. The problem wasn’t the availability of food; it was the lack of funds. The farmers sold their goods to the British who were occupying Philadelphia since they paid in Pound Sterling while Washington’s army had only worthless script and I.O.U.s to offer. At one point Washington had to order Alexander Hamilton to take men out to take horses and supplies from the residents in the surrounding area. This was done with tact and records were kept of what was commandeered, however, it was a fretful action in the midst of a war for liberty. For a time Congress was permitted to print currency but as faith in that currency fell, inflation ran to the extreme and it was rendered effectually worthless. In March 1780, Madison wrote to Jefferson that “Our army, threatened with an immediate alternative of disbanding or living on free quarter; the public treasury empty; public credit exhausted,…”. Once this point was reached, without the ability to directly raise revenue, the Congress could no longer fund the war, though perhaps they never actually had that ability at all. With soldiers going months without pay even at the end of hostilities with French gold flowing in and loans from other nations secured. Tensions rose and with them fears as Congress’ promises of pensions and empty rhetoric was falling on deaf ears. In 1783, in Newburgh, NY, officers of the Continental Army gathered to discuss a mutiny against Congress. It even seems evident that Hamilton himself played a part in its organization. When Washington learned of the conspiracy, he addressed the officers in an effort to put an end to it, but his words seemed to have little effect at least until the very end of his speech. In a scene that demonstrates well Washington’s amazing abilities, he paused to find his glasses saying “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.” This stopped the conspiracy, though it wasn’t the end of the story as the rank and file near Philadelphia took to arms and actually marched on Congress in the summer of the same year. At the 11th hour, Congress was forced to flee with temporary homes found in New Jersey, Maryland, and finally New York. These and other events drove the Founding Parents to build “a more perfect union”, and the power to levy taxes was at the forefront of the reasons for its construction. As to the tax schemes, flat or otherwise, I turn to America’s First Citizen, Benjamin Franklin. In his Autobiography he wrote “…, but insisting more particularly on the inequality of this six-shilling tax of the constables, respecting the circumstances of those who paid it, since a poor widow housekeeper, all whose property to be guarded by the watch did not perhaps exceed the value of fifty pounds, paid as much as the wealthiest merchant, who had thousands of pounds worth of goods in his stores…. a more equitable way of supporting the charge the levying a tax that should be proportion’d to the property” “…These public quarrels were all at bottom owing to the proprietaries, our hereditary governors, who, when any expense was to be incurred for the defense of their province, with incredible meanness instructed their deputies to pass no act for levying the necessary taxes, unless their vast estates were in the same act expressly excused…” And on the preparations for defense in the French-English war… “But the governor refusing his assent to their bill (which included this with other sums granted for the use of the crown), unless a clause were inserted exempting the proprietary estate from bearing any part of the tax that would be necessary, the Assembly, tho’ very desirous of making their grant to New England effectual, were at a loss how to accomplish it. ” The most amazing result of their efforts, to my mind, is that, in the end, 13 sovereign states essentially capitulated to a newly formed government with the only battles being those of words, logic, and reason. In a time when greed and corruption was as rampant in the legislature as it is today, Hamilton, who is regarded as the father of the United States economy, wrote to Robert Morris that government should regulate trade “so that ‘injurious branches of commerce might be discouraged, favourable branches encouraged, [and] useful products and manufactures promoted.” What I think is to often quoted without a full understanding is that The Constitution endows the only real power within the people. At that time, the public was largely uneducated and interstate communication was primitive so the delegates to the Constitutional Convention could be forgiven for falling to the notion that only the “landowners” were capable of holding office. Some were even prescient like Elbridge Gerry who said “The people do not want virtue; but are the dupes of pretended patriots. In Massts. it has been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men, and which no one on the spot can refute…” Though he was speaking against Democracy, his words served to illustrate a risk that the delegates failed to successfully mitigate. It was a meritocracy that let a son of a shoe maker and an poor orphan from the St. Croix to join the ranks of the builders of a great nation. Although the framers worked to defeat the notion of monarchy and aristocracy, they failed to firmly set the meritocracy. Through campaign law reform, perhaps we can continue their work in forming a government which will ensure a more perfect union and keep the people as the only true sovereign. A Note on Sources: I have not provided sources here as I have come across the events retold again and again in the many volumes I’ve read on the founding of the nation. This reading includes multiple biographies and autobiographies on all of the founders as well as some of their correspondence, general histories, and even both volumes of James Madison’s Journal from the Federal Convention in their entirety. Leave a Comment :Constitution, Continental Congress, Founding, Hamilton, HIstory, Madison, Revolutionary War, Taxes, The Founders, U.S. Host, Washington more... Fox News, The Post, at the Founding of the Nation by admin on Oct.28, 2010, under History The news media today crawls in the sludge of partisan attacks and dirty laundry from which it seems incapable to rise above. The current trend towards ruthless, and very often baseless, assertions goes well beyond reason and no doubt furthers the media’s descent into pure propaganda. The stories include: “The treasury secretary is an aristocratic tool of the rich, using his office to further the financial gain of his powerful friends at the expense of the common man …” “The former president traded sexual favors from the wife of the candidate to secure votes…” “The president, described as a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman” plans to name himself king and groom his son as his heir…” This would seem enough to cause Abigail Adams, a leading figure in the American Revolution to call for a censure on the freedom of the press. As a matter of fact, it did, as the”hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman” was none other than her husband, a hero of our nation’s founding; John Adams. These claims were actually made in the press at the time immediately following the founding of the United States, and were, of course, untrue. The treasury secretary was Alexander Hamilton. The purported pimp of a candidate’s wife for votes was Thomas Jefferson1; the claim supposedly coming from John Randolph, a congressman from Virginia. And this was not the half of it. James Callender, came in from England, aided by Jefferson in establishing himself in the U.S., became the source of tabloid style, political attacks thrown in any direction which opposed the current source of his paychecks. He even attacked Mr. Jefferson when he refused to give him a government job. Abigail actually wrote to Jefferson in 1804 stating; “In no country has calumny, falshood[sic], and revileing[sic] stalked abroad more licentiously, than in this. No political character has been secure from its attacks, no reputation so fair, as not to be counted by it, until truth and falshood[sic] lie in one undistinctioned heap”. The attacks were not just tabloid style, but fear mongering just as we would find in the media today. For example, Alexander Hamilton, writing under a pseudonym attacked Jefferson and his party; “Hence it is, in the present moment, we see the most industrious efforts made to violate the Constitution of this State, to trample upon the rights of the subject, and to chicane or infringe the most solemn obligations of treaty; while dispassionate and upright men almost totally neglect the means of counteracting these dangerous attempts.” In 1798 John Adams received the what became known as the Alien and Sedition acts. All accounts I’ve read had Abigail Adams encouraging the president to sign the acts into law. Of interest here is the 4th act which made a high misdemeanor “false, scandalous, or malicious writing”. However, this one act is often sited as a major cause of his failure to win reelection in 1800. The new congress that followed repealed the acts and the newly elected president Thomas Jefferson, the man who made efforts to “trample upon the rights of the subject [the people]” pardoned all those imprisoned under the act. So where does this leave us today? Are Fox News and it’s less bombastic counterparts on “the left” off the hook given that the tradition of often baseless and even seditious political attacks in the media date back to the nations founding? Does the fact that Hamilton and Jefferson directly employed and encouraged these practices lend them merit? In my opinion… no. Madison wrote “A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” Further, “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” In essence, a well educated and informed populace is required, and to understand their work, we must understand these people and the times in which they lived. Jefferson wrote that ““Information is the currency of democracy” and “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” In the words of these two men we find what I read to be the caveat in the core pillar of our system of government. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people cannot be carried out effectively if the people are not well informed and do not prize education. Any source that intentionally distorts the truth or circulates out right falsehood as truth for some political goal is, in my opinion, acting to subvert the true sovereign recognized by the consensus of the founders; the people. Do I agree with Abigail and the Sedition Act, no. But warning labels are used on many products to alert people about the contents, perhaps the same can be applied to the media. Warning*: the following program may contain material presented as factual and unbiased, when actually the exact opposite is true. People are advised to seek other sources before reaching any conclusions. And it goes further… What if Hamilton and Jefferson had put aside their anger and sat down together as Washington had requested in letters to both men? What if the politicians in the North and those in the South set out with the only goal being to work for ends of mutual benefit instead of slashing and burning and the near constant threats to secede from or dissolve the union? And today, when we honestly ask who among us wants “big government breathing down our necks”, spending our money with reckless, let alone money borrowed from not-necessarily-friendly powers. I would wager no one would raise their hands. I would think no one wants high taxes… no one wants our rights trampled. However, with fear running high, and anger and hatred stoked We The People will never sit down and safely debate the salient questions. In my opinion, the people involved in creating this country committed an act of historic greatness indeed, but that does not render their every act great, or even the best choice. Perhaps its time we relegated these worthless practices, that are at once injurious to those people and to the nation itself, to the magazines on the supermarket check-out racks. If we don’t I fear that we will never come together as “We the People” and ensure that the guards we appoint for our security are actually concerned with it. 1: Cokie Roberts, Ladies of Liberty: The Women who Shaped Our Nation 4 Comments :Abagail Adams, Adams, Constitution, Fox News, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Partisan Attacks, Political infighting, The Founders, Washington Post more... 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__label__cc	0.607627	0.392373	Casino Bingo UK News Casino-Britain.co.uk Official Blog « Supercasino site to be announced Blackpool: ‘It’s like someone has died’ » Comment: Manchester deserves supercasino prize Dominic walsh – www.timesonline.co.uk The Great British Public loves it when the underdog wins, so Manchester’s selection as the location for the UK’s first regional supercasino will be warmly welcomed. The process had been billed as a two-horse race between the Millennium Dome in Greenwich and Blackpool, but none of the hot money had been put on Sportcity in East Manchester. Its location in one of the country’s most deprived areas certainly fulfills the regeneration criteria that were at the heart of the Casino Advisory Panel’s deliberations. That factor, together with the catchment area of more than 10 million people, will also allow the Government to test the social impact of a supercasino, ultimately determining whether further such licences are eventually awarded to some of the unlucky runners-up. Manchester has already shown it can deliver big projects. Witness the 2002 Commonwealth Games which were deemed to be a big success, not only in sporting terms but also in accelerating the growth and development of the city as a whole and providing a catalyst for regeneration of East Manchester in particular. Witness, too, the rebirth of the city centre after the IRA bomb in 1996. Manchester’s compelling case took it from outsider to winner in the final furlong. But the underdog now needs to show that it has the bite to go with its bark From Casino-Bingo.co.uk – Online Casinos in Britain This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 08:26 am and is filed under Casino News UK, General Gambling News UK. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Casino Bingo UK News is proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line19
__label__cc	0.727342	0.272658	Jonathan Burroughs John Sommerville Liam Nicholls Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark Client Challenges The Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity is an independent, place-based foundation that works with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and others to improve the health of people in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. The Charity wants to support new approaches to health and recognises that great ideas sometimes need space and resource. When it heard that MedCity were appointing consultants to undertake a demand assessment for healthcare related R&D floor space in London it wanted to use that work as a platform to understand better how businesses might value being at or close to the major hospital campuses of Guy’s and St Thomas’. As well as wanting to know about potential demand it wanted to know more about the potential relationship between incubation and ‘grow on’ activity. Creative Places worked hard to ensure that as it progressed the London-wide demand study for MedCity, focussing on healthcare related R&D, specific questions were asked of businesses around the subjects of collaborative work, co-location, hot-desking and relationship building. We specifically asked businesses about the value in having R&D teams based at or close to leading research intensive hospitals and we explored more fully the range of issues that come to the fore when considering locations for undertaking R&D activity. The Charity has been able to progress delivery of its Health Foundry project with a better understanding of the context within which this initiative sits; at the same time it has been able to engage with its partner organisations to further advance consideration of wider and more extensive development plans. The Health Foundry is now established as a successful collaborative workspace for people using digital technologies to improve health and wellbeing. enquiries@creativeplaces.com 3 King's Parade CB2 1SJ We send out our opinion pieces by email as soon as they are published. If you would like to be added to our mailing list please submit your details here. Explore Creative Places	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line21
__label__wiki	0.902424	0.902424	Encyclopedia > Musical genre Musical genre Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. Some genres, such as Indian music, are geographically defined; others, like Baroque music, are largely defined by chronology. Still others, such as barbershop, are defined by quite precise technical requirements. Some genres, however, are quite vague, and may be contrived by critics; post-rock, for example, is a term devised and defined by Simon Reynolds[?]. To some extent, all attempts to categorise music will have a degree of artificiality to them, because musicians tend to produce music in any style they choose, without concerning themselves with which genre they are working in. Some people feel that the categorization of music into genres is worse than useless. John Zorn, for example, a musician whose work has covered a wide range of genres, wrote in Arcana: musicians on music that genres are tools used to "commodify and commercialize an artist's complex personal vision", implying that oftentimes, genres represent efforts at marketing rather than actual musical distinctions. Other artists feel that it is the artist's fault themselves for making a body of work that can be put into a shared class easily with others. Dividing music by genre is still widely done, however, making it easier to trace threads through music history, and increasing the ease with which individuals find artists that they enjoy. 1 Related Lists 2 Overview of Main Groupings 2.1 Country music 2.2 Soul music 2.3 Punk music 2.4 Reggae & Dub 2.5 Rock and roll 2.6 Hip hop 2.7 Techno 2.8 Outside Electronica To track down information about a specific genre see the following lists: List of musical genres List of musicians by genre Overview of Main Groupings Although there are many individual genres, it is possible to group these together into a number of overlapping major groupings. The rest of this page attempts to do that for a number of widely agreed areas. These definitions should be kept relatively short and simple, referring to further articles as needed. Country music is usually used to refer to honky tonk today. Emerging in the 1930s in the United States, honky tonk country was strongly influenced by the blues, as well as jug bands (which can not be properly called honky tonk). In the 1950s, country achieved great mainstream success by adding elements of rock and roll; this was called rockabilly. In addition, Western swing[?] added influences from swing and bluegrass emerged as a largely underground phenomenon. Later in the decade, the Nashville sound, a highly polished form of country music, became very popular. In reaction to this, harder-edged, gritty musicians sprung up in Bakersfield, California, inventing the Bakersfield sound. Merle Haggard and similar artists brought the Bakersfield sound to mainstream audiences in the 1960s, while Nashville started churning out countrypolitan. During the 1970s, the most popular genre was outlaw country[?], a heavily rock-influenced style. The late 1980s saw the Urban Cowboys[?] bring about an influx of pop-oriented stars during the 1990s. Modern bluegrass music has remained mostly traditional, though progressive bluegrass[?] and close harmony[?] groups do exist, and the sound is the primary basis for jam bands like the Grateful Dead. Soul emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s as an outgrowth of gospel and rock and roll. It was immediately popular, and splintered in many disparate genres, including blue eyed soul[?] (performed by white musicians), brown eyed soul[?] (performed by Latino musicians), Motown (Detroit-based Motown Records), southern soul[?] and swamp pop[?]. Boy bands and girl groups were also popular, primarily as teen idols playing an extremely watered-down version of soul called bubblegum pop. In the latter part of the decade, several regional styles emerged -- Chicago[?], Memphis[?], Philadelphia[?] and St. Louis soul[?] were extremely popular. Musicians like James Brown also started adding greater rock influences, forming funk, while Smokey Robinson and others helped invent Quiet Storm[?] in the 1970s. Until the late 1990s, New Jack Swing[?] was extremely popular among mainstream audiences. In the middle of the decade, a new breed of 70s-oriented soul singers emerged, including Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo; this is called nu soul. The term "punk music" can only rarely be applied uncontroversially. Perhaps the only bands always considered "punk" are the first wave of punk bands, such as the Clash and the Ramones. Before this, however, a series of underground musicians helped define the music throughout the 1970s -- see Forerunners of punk music. After 70s ended, punk had evolved into several genres which can be grouped into three categories -- hardcore, New Wave and alternative rock. Hardcore punk music kept the raw, visceral energy of the original punk bands. In the 1980s, reggae influences resulted in a fusion called ska punk, while another group of party bands became known as oi. During the 1990s, some more styles emerged, including straight edge, and queercore[?], based around subcultures -- straight edge and homosexuals, respectively. Psychobilly (see also cow punk[?]) also emerged, fusing punk with rockabilly and other kinds of country music. In addition, emo (or emocore) had appeared by the 90s, characterized by slower beats, dreamy vocals and angst-ridden lyrics. New Wave was the most popular genre of punk music, dominating the charts during the early 1980s. Varieties included Neue Deutsche Welle[?], synth pop, dream pop and the New Romantics. Of these, the most popular was synth pop, though the most critically accepted groups were the underground dream pop bands. In the 1980s, dream pop evolved into many of the most popular genres of the 1990s. This occurred primarily in Britain, with styles like jangle pop[?] (and the Paisley Underground[?]) and noise pop[?] (and, later, twee pop, shoegazing). All of these styles (along with psychedelic music) contributed to the popular emergence of Britpop in the middle of the decade. Keeping the anti-corporate stance of punk music, alternative rock is a broad grouping, referring to multiple styles. The earliest genres were noise pop[?], post-rock and Gothic rock. These bands were unable to break into the mainstream, though they influenced many of the 1980s' most popular groups. By the end of the decade, post rock had developed into math rock, while other genres like Riot Grrl[?], slowcore[?] (aka sadcore or shoegaze) and grunge music. During the early 1990s, grunge music broke into the mainstream in a big way. With "alternative" now mainstream, other bands began referring to themselves as indie rock. In Jamaica during the 1950s, American R&B was most popular, though mento[?] (a form of folk music) was more common in rural areas. A fusion of the two styles, along with soca and other genres, formed ska, an extremely popular form of music intended for dancing. In the 1960s, reggae and dub emerged from ska and American rock and roll. Starting the late 1960s, a rock-influenced form of music began developing -- this was called rocksteady. With some folk influences (both Jamaican and American), and the growing urban popularity of Rastafarianism, rocksteady evolved into what is now known as roots reggae. In the 1970s, a style called Lovers rock became popular primarily in the United Kingdom by British performers of ballad-oriented reggae music. Dub emerged in Jamaica when sound system DJs began taking away the vocals from songs so that people could dance to the beat alone. Soon, pioneers like King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry began adding new vocals over the old beats; the lyrics were rhythmic and rhyme-heavy. After the popularity of reggae died down in the early 1980s, derivatives of dub dominated the Jamaican charts. These included ragga and dancehall, both of which remained popular in Jamaica alone until the mainstream breakthrough of American gangsta rap (which evolved out of dub musicians like DJ Kool Herc moving to American cities). Ragga especially now has many devoted followers throughout the world. Rock and roll is a confusing term with multiple definitions. It can be used strictly, referring to very little music recorded after the early 1960s, or broadly, to refer to almost all popular music recorded since the early 1950s. It arose from multiple genres in the late 1940s, most importantly the jump blues. It was first popularized by performers like Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, who fused the sound with country music, resulting in rockabilly. In addition, gospel music and a related genre, R&B (rhythm and blues), emerged later in the decade. R&B soon became on of the most popular genres, with girl groups, garage rock and surf rock most popular in the US, while harder, more blues-oriented musicians became popular in the UK, which soon developed into British blues, merseybeat, mod and skiffle. Starting the mid-1960s, a group of British bands that played variations on American R&B-influenced blues became popular on both sides of the Atlantic -- the British Invasion, a catchall term for multiple genres. These groups, including the Beatles, fused the earlier sounds with Appalachian folk music[?], forming folk rock, as well as a variety of less-popular genres, including the soon-to-be dominant singer-songwriter tradition. Early heavy metal and punk rock bands formed in this period, though these genres did not emerge as such for several years. The most popular genre of the British Invasion was psychedelic music, which slowly morphed into bluegrass-influenced jam bands like The Grateful Dead and ornate, classically-influenced progressive rock bands. Merseybeat and mod groups like The Yardbirds and The Who soon evolved into hard rock, which, in the early 1970s specialized into a gritty sound called glam rock, as well as a mostly underground phenomenon called power pop. In the early to mid-1970s, singer-songwriters and pop musicians dominated the charts, though punk rock and krautrock[?] also developed, and some success was achieved by southern rock and roots rock[?] performers, which fused modern techniques with a more traditionalist sound. Hip hop began in inner cities in the US in the 1970s. The earliest recordings, primarily from the early 1980s, are now referred to as old school rap. In the later part of the decade, regional styles developed. East Coast rap, based out of New York City, was by far the most popular as rap began to break into the mainstream. West Coast rap, based out of Los Angeles, was by far less popular until 1992, when Dr. Dre's The Chronic revolutioned the West Coast sound, using slow, stoned, lazy beats in what came to be called G Funk. Soon after, a host of other regional styles became popular, most notably Southern rap, based out of Atlanta and New Orleans, primarily. Atlanta based performers like OutKast soon developed their own distinct sound, which came to be known as Dirty South[?]. As hip hop became more popular in the mid-1990s, alternative rap gained in popularity among critics and long-time fans of the music. De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising (1989) was perhaps the first "alternative rap" blockbuster, and helped develop a specific style called jazz rap, characterized by the use of live instrumentation and/or jazz samples. Other less popular forms of hip hop include various non-American varieties; Japan[?], Britain[?], Mexico, Sweden[?], France, Germany, Italy and Turkey have vibrant hip hop communities. In Puerto Rico, a style called reggaeton[?] is popular. Electro hip hop[?] was invented in the 1980s, but is distinctly different from most old school hip hop (as is go go, another old style). Some other genres have been created by fusing hip hop with techno (trip hop) and heavy metal (rapcore). In the late 1980s, Miami's hip hop scene was characterized by bass-heavy grooves designed for dancing -- Miami bass music. There are also rappers with Christian themes in the lyrics -- this is Christian hip hop. Although many artists in the 50s and 60s created pure electronic music with pop structures, fully formed techno as we know it today really emerged in 1977 with Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity album. Originally techno referred to disco made with fully electronic instruments. Now techno has become a word for one of the many subgenres of electronic music. These include trance music (with a distinct style of instrumentation and focused on more complex chord progressions and melodies), goa trance (spawning from industrial music and tribal dance, focusing on creating psychedelic sound effects within the songs), house (the name for the original idea of techno, a fully electronic disco music, acid house (a genre of house featuring the Roland 303 synthesizer or others with Resonance/Cutoff control), Deep House[?], (a very specific subset of house music, featuring heavy use of the cutoff filter on musical samples), Big Beat (a later genre of techno which features much higher production quality and complexity as opposed to the more minimalist aesthetic of other techno subgenres. This was popularized by bands such as Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers), Jungle (an offshoot of reggae and techno, utilizing quick tempos with sampled break beats, most notably the amen break[?] and the funky drummer[?]), Gabber, (a Dutch development on techno, which features extremely high tempos and lots of overdrive and distortion on the music, especially the base drum being distorted into a square wave tone), Happy Hardcore[?], (a more palatable version of Gabber, fusing elements of drum and bass as well), techno, (the name techno itself has been used to describe a modern subgenre, namely a very minimalist version of the original techno, usually without melody and with very little progression through the song). This type of techno, as well as many other genres and records, is often composed to fit easily into a live DJ set. Most of these genres are constantly being broken down into further subgenres, with varying degrees of destinctiveness. Outside Electronica Electronic Music that does not fall into the techno or dance categories are often referred to as "left-field," "outside" or "electroacoustic." These styles include Ambient, Downtempo[?], Illbient and Trip-hop (among countless others), which are all related in that they usually rely more on their atmospheric qualities than techno, and make use of slower, more subtle tempos, sometimes excluding rhythm completely. IDM (an achronym for Intelligent Dance Music) is an elusive and confusing genre classification that can only be truly defined by flagbearers and flagburners like Aphex Twin and Autechre. All electronic music owes at least its historical existence to early pioneers of tape experiments known as Musique concrete, as well as experimental synthesists like John Cage and Stockhausen[?]. Ocean Beach, New York ... Beach is located at 40°38'52" North, 73°9'28" West (40.647743, -73.157729)1. 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__label__cc	0.732157	0.267843	Dressage Teams & Individuals Confirmed for Tokyo Olympics 11 months ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Dressage Teams & Individuals Confirmed for Tokyo Olympics The 15 teams each of three riders and horses and 15 individuals for a total of 60 starting places in dressage at the Tokyo Olympics in July were confirmed by the International Equestrian Federation Monday. June 1 is the final qualifying hurdle of minimum eligibility requirement of, essentially, two scores of 66% for combinations nominated by national federations. Both team and individual places have been previously reported. As confirmed by the FEI: Teams–Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United States. Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Finland, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine. The number of nations competing in dressage will be 30, up from 25 at the Rio Games in 2016. Dressage competition at Tokyo is scheduled for July 25-29. dressage, dressage-news, Olympics, Tokyo Ashley Holzer & Sir Caramello Win Wellington CDI3* Grand Prix Special for 1st Big Tour Victory WELLINGTON, Florida, Mar. 3, 2018--Ashley Holzer and Sir Caramello claimed their first victory in winning the Adequan Global Dressage Festival CDI3* Grand Prix Special Saturday in only their fourth... Read More	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line26
__label__wiki	0.724457	0.724457	Portal om Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention Nyheder, information, kommenteret retspraksis mm. vedr. Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention Nyheder på engelsk Konventionen og tillægsprotokoller Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention Protokol nr. 1 Protokol nr. 12 De ratificerende stater Om Konventionen Om Domstolen Rettighederne og processen Fortolkningsstil Rettighederne Artikel 2 – Ret til liv Artikel 3 – Forbud mod tortur Seneste afgørelser Seneste afgørelser fra Domstolen Seneste afgørelser mod Danmark Seneste afgørelser fra Højesteret Domsreferater Salem mod Danmark, sagsnummer 77036/11 Afgørelse af 01/12/2016 Ikke krænkelse af EMRK artikel 8, da udlænding blev udvist som følge af dom for alvorlig kriminalitet, uagtet klager havde kone og 8 børn i landet. Sagen omhandlede den statsløse palæstinenser med libanesiske rødder Mahmoud Kalil Salem, i medierne omtalt som “Fiz Fiz” (herefter benævnt klager), som ved Højesterets dom (6 mod 1) blev udvist af Danmark med indrejseforbud for bestandig, idet var var blevet fundet skyldig i bl. a. handel med euforiserende stoffer under skærpende omstændigheder. Det fremgik bl. a. af sagen, at klager i 1993 i en alder af 23 år indrejste i Danmark, hvor han blev gift med en dansk statsborger, med hvilken han fik 8 børn med dansk statsborgerskab. Klager blev i 2000 tildelt asyl. Klager havde ingen anden familie i Danmark. I 2010 blev klager ved byretten fundet skyldig i bl. a. handel med euforiserende stoffer under skærpende omstændigheder, vold, afpresning mm. Byretten idømte klager 5 års ubetinget fængsel og betinget udvisning af Danmark. Klager ankede sagen til landsretten, som idømte klager 6 års ubetinget fængsel og stadfæstede den betingede udvisning. Anklagemyndigheden ankede afgørelsen om betinget udvisning til Højesteret. I Højesteret blev fremlagt oplysninger vedr. klagers ophold og tilknytning til Danmark. Heraf fremgik det bl. a. klagers børn havde alvorlige indlæringsproblemer, psykiske vanskeligheder og generelt var meget socialt belastede. Videre fremgik, at klager og klagers kone flere gange havde været i Syrien, hvor de i 2009-2010 angiveligt påtænkte at købe en lejlighed, og at der fra klagers telefon i husstanden i en periode på 5 måneder var registreret ikke mindre end 967 opkald til udenlandske telefonnumre – hovedsageligt til Syrien og Libanon. Endvidere fremgik, at i en 5-årig periode havde klagers kone og børn og klager selv overført pengesummer til personer i Libanon og Syrien. Højesterets flertal (6 mod 1) ændrede landsrettens afgørelse og udviste klager med indrejseforbud for bestandig. Flertallet analyserede sagen i lyset af praksis fra Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol og lagde navnlig vægt på, at klager var dømt for handel med euforiserende stoffer under skærpende omstændigheder, hvor klager havde en ledende rolle ifm. sagen. Endvidere fremhævede Højesteret, at klager, der havde været i Danmark siden 1993, fortsat havde begrænsede danskkundskaber og således ikke havde integreret sig i samfundet, hvor han hverken havde haft forbindelse til arbejdsmarkedet eller taget en uddannelse. Yderligere fremhævdede flertallet, at klager og hele hans familie talte arabisk, og at klager stadig havde forbindelse til Libanon og Syrien, hvor han havde familie. For Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol (herefter EMD) påstod klager, at udvisningen udgjorde en krænkelse af Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonventions artikel 8 (herefter EMRK), og gjorde til støtte herfor navnlig gældende, at hans ret til familieliv med sine børn ville lide skade, skulle klager blive udvist af Danmark. EMD udtalte indledningsvist, at medlemsstaten inden for sine forpligtelser i henhold til internationale konventioner har ret til at bestemme, hvorvidt udlændinge kan tage ophold eller udvises af landet. EMRK garanterer hverken indrejse eller ophold i en given medlemsstat, men et indgreb i et individs familieliv vil udgøre en krænkelse af EMRK artikel 8, medmindre det er i overensstemmelse med bestemmelsens stk. 2, hvorefter indgrebet skal være i overensstemmelse med national ret, forfølge et lovligt formål og ikke udgøre et uproportionalt indgrebet (“nødvendigt i et demokratisk samfund”). EMD fremhævede i præmis 64, hvilke kriterier, der indgår i proportionalitetsvurderingen: Alvoren af den idømte kriminalitet, længden af den dømtes ophold i landet, hvor lang tid siden kriminaliteten er begået og den dømtes opførsel i denne periode, de involverede personers nationalitet, den dømtes familiesituation (fx oplysninger om ægteskabet), hvorvidt ægtefællen havde viden om den idømte kriminalitet, hvorvidt der er børn i ægteskabet (navnlig børnenes alder), alvoren af de vanskeligeheder ægtefællen vil møde i landet der udvises til, børnenes tarv i denne forbindelse, og endelig den dømtes kulturelle og familiemæssige bånd til landet der udvises til. EMD konstaterede, at Højesteret i det væsentlige havde foretaget en sådan afvejning, og EMD fandt, at der alene manglede at blive taget stilling til alvoren af de vanskeligheder børnene – under hensyn til deres alder – ville møde i landet der udvises til. EMD udtalte i denne forbindelse, at der er bred konsensus om, at børnenes tarv skal tillægges betydelig vægt i denne afvejning. EMD fremhævede, at der i klagers sag, hvor klagers 8 børn på daværende tidspunkt var i alderen 5 til 16 år, angiveligt ikke ville kunne klare sig uden for Danmark. I lyset af sagens oplysninger, herunder om børnenes massive sociale problemer, udtalte EMD, at det dog måtte anses for tvivlsomt, om klager havde spillet nogen central rolle i familielivet, og at børnenes tarv var blevet påvirket negativt som følge af klagers udvisning. Yderligere bemærkede EMD, at klager ikke havde peget på, hvorledes børnene var forhindret i at besøge deres far i Libanon eller i øvrigt holde kontakten med ham via telefon eller internet. EMD konkluderede, at Højesteret havde foretaget en tilfredsstillende afvejning af interesserne i sagen, hvor klager var dømt for alvorlig kriminalitet. Dette set i lyset af medlemsstaternes suverænitet og ret til inden for deres territorium at regulere udlændinges ophold, konkluderede EMD enstemmigt, at der ikke forelå en krænkelse af EMRK artikel 8. __________Dommen (engelsk)___________ CASE OF SALEM v. DENMARK (Application no. 77036/11) This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Salem v. Denmark, The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Işıl Karakaş, President, Julia Laffranque, ad hoc judge, Paul Lemmens, Valeriu Griţco, Ksenija Turković, Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, Georges Ravarani, judges, and Hasan Bakırcı, Deputy Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 8 November 2016, delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: 1. The case originated in an application (no. 77036/11) against the Kingdom of Denmark lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a stateless Palestinian from Lebanon, Mr Mahmoud Kalil Salem (“the applicant”), on 13 December 2011. 2. The applicant was represented by Mr Michael Juul Eriksen, a lawyer practising in Denmark. The Danish Government (“the Government”) were represented by their former Agent, Mr Jonas Bering Liisberg, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and their Co-agent Mrs Nina Holst‑Christensen, of the Ministry of Justice. 3. The applicant alleged that it would be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention to expel him from Denmark. 4. On 2 October 2013 the complaint under Article 8 was communicated to the Government and the remainder of the application was declared inadmissible pursuant to Rule 54 § 3 of the Rules of Court. I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE 5. The applicant was born in 1969 in Lebanon. 6. On 12 January 1993, at the age of 23, he entered Denmark and requested asylum, which was refused by a final decision of 31 October 1994. 7. On 17 November 1994 he applied for a residence permit based on his marriage to a Danish national of Lebanese origin. She had entered Denmark as a child in 1985. His request was granted temporarily, until August 1996. Subsequently it was granted permanently. In 2000 he was also granted asylum under section 7 of the Aliens Act (Udlændingloven). 8. The couple have eight children, all Danish nationals, who at the beginning of 2010 were 14, 13, 12, 10, 9, 7, 6 and 4 years old, respectively. 9. The applicant never went to school in Lebanon and he has never had a job, either in Lebanon or in Denmark. In Denmark he received social benefits until 16 November 2004, when he was granted an early retirement pension by the State due to his poor health: he suffered in particular from post-traumatic stress disorder. His wife was granted an early retirement pension due to back problems. 10. The applicant speaks and understands Danish but he cannot read or write the language. He also speaks and understands Arabic, but cannot read or write it. The same applies to his wife. They speak Arabic between themselves and with their children. 11. The applicant’s wife has eighteen siblings living in Denmark. 12. The applicant has no other family in Denmark. His mother and sister live in Lebanon. He also has a sister in Syria. 13. The applicant has a criminal record which includes, inter alia, a conviction in 2000 for grave disturbance of public order and a suspended sentence of twenty days’ imprisonment, a conviction in June 2005 sentencing him to twenty days for committing violence against a public servant in the performance of his office, and a conviction in February 2007 for the same kind of offence, for which he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. 14. On 9 September 2009 the applicant was arrested and detained on remand charged with, inter alia, various counts of drug trafficking and dealing. 15. By a judgment of 10 June 2010 the City Court in Odense (retten i Odense) found him guilty, in part jointly with others, of 18 counts of offences including drug trafficking and drug dealing contrary to Article 191 of the Criminal Code with regard to a significant amount of hashish (more than 100 kg in total, in addition to an attempt to import a large supply from Holland) and an attempt to buy 200 g of cocaine, all committed in the period from 2006 until 9 September 2009. In addition he was convicted of coercion by violence and threats, blackmail, theft, handling stolen property, escaping while under arrest and possession of weapons. 16. When sentencing the applicant to five years’ imprisonment the City Court took into account, in particular, the significant amount of hashish and cocaine; that the latter was a “hard drug”; the huge profit that the applicant had obtained from the resale; the long period concerned; the applicant’s absolute leading role, notably in relation to the drug dealers under him, whom he had subjected to violence and threats; and that as a member of a gang, he had delivered hashish for resale to various towns in the region. It was also noted that the applicant had previous convictions. Finally, the sentence was determined partially as a supplementary penalty because some of the offences had been committed before the applicant’s previous conviction. 17. The amount of 404,500 Danish kroner (DKK), equivalent to approximately 54,000 euros (EUR), and gold jewellery found in the applicant’s home during a search were confiscated as profit from the crimes. It was noted that the applicant and his wife, who both received State benefits and who, when calculating their expenses, apparently had a deficit in their household budget for 2007, 2008 and 2009 amounting to a total of at least DKK 2.5 million (approximately EUR 335,600) could not substantiate that they had obtained the goods legally. For example, the applicant’s wife denied knowledge of a receipt dated 20 October 2008 for 255.6 g of gold jewellery bought in her name in Dubai for DKK 43,000. 18. Moreover, pursuant to section 24b of the Aliens Act, the City Court ordered the applicant’s expulsion, suspended and with two years’ probation. The City Court noted that the seriousness of the crimes spoke heavily for his expulsion without suspension, but having regard to his wife, who stated that she could not follow her husband to Lebanon, and his eight children in the country, the court did not find that there was sufficient basis for an unsuspended expulsion order. 19. On appeal, by a judgment of 30 March 2011 the conviction was upheld in part by the High Court of Eastern Denmark (Østre Landsret) and the sentence was increased to six years’ imprisonment due notably to the nature and quantity of the drugs, the extent of the drug offences committed and the applicant’s leading role. By three votes to three, with the more beneficial outcome in the applicant’s favour, the expulsion order remained suspended. 20. The public prosecution appealed to the Supreme Court (Højesteret) against the judgment as regards the suspended expulsion order. New evidence was adduced in this respect, notably as regards the applicant’s and his wife’s ties to Denmark, Lebanon and Syria. They were both heard. 21. The applicant explained that he had been in Lebanon for thirty days during the summer of 2009. He had no contacts there but his mother and sister. His other sister lived with her husband and their five children in a refugee camp in Syria. He had stayed there for twenty or twenty-two days during the summer of 2007, for fourteen days during the summer of 2008 and for sixteen days in December 2008. 22. The applicant’s wife and children had been to Syria two or three times in 2009 to visit the applicant’s sister there. Since the applicant’s arrest in September 2009, she and the children had spent one and a half months in Syria in 2010, and two months in 2011. During the spring of 2011 she had gone alone to Syria for seven or ten days because the sister had fallen ill. 23. During the summer of 2009 the applicant began negotiations to buy an apartment in Syria because his wife and children went there quite often. He also wanted to buy a shop in the same building. Twice he transferred money via Western Union to his sister to buy the apartment, but it was given up when he was arrested. 24. The applicant’s wife stated that she could not follow her husband if he were expelled to Lebanon or Syria. She and the children would not be able to stand living in either of those countries, and the children could not live outside Denmark. 25. Statements obtained from the Children’s Department at the municipality and the children’s schools and day-care institutions recounted that several of the eight children had serious problems, including of a psychological and educational nature. Four of the children received special education and several of the children needed extra support and supervision in their schools and institutions. Massive public support measures had been provided due to a significant need to teach them normal social behaviour. Finally, the placement of some of the sons in public care was under consideration. 26. According to a police report of 9 August 2011, based on interceptions carried out during the criminal proceedings against the applicant, it was established that in the period from 21 April 2009 to 10 September 2009, thus a period of less than 5 months, there had been nine hundred and sixty‑seven calls to and from overseas numbers on the applicant’s and his wife’s home telephone. These concerned eighty different foreign telephone numbers, including thirty-eight in Lebanon and nine in Syria. To the numbers in Lebanon there had been in total four hundred and thirty-three calls, and to the numbers in Syria there had been three hundred and six calls. The applicant explained in this connection that the calls to Lebanon had mainly been to people from Denmark who had been on vacation in Lebanon and that the calls to Syria had been to his sister. The applicant’s wife explained that she often talked to her sister-in-law in Syria. She also had family in Lebanon. Nevertheless she did have difficulties understanding why there had been calls to thirty-eight different numbers in Lebanon. 27. According to a police report of 18 August 2011, it appeared that in the period from 18 January 2006 to 15 June 2011 the applicant, his wife and their children had made various transfers of money to Syria and Lebanon. Sixteen of those concerned a total of DKK 71,471 and were made in the applicant’s name. After the applicant’s arrest in September 2009, his wife had transferred money to the applicant’s sisters in Lebanon and Syria. 28. In its judgment of 12 October 2011, by a majority of six votes to one, the Supreme Court decided to expel the applicant with a life-long ban on his return. 29. It observed that the applicant had been convicted of drug trafficking offences under Article 191 of the Penal Code and attempt thereof on five counts for 59.5 kg of hashish for resale (count 53a); 23 kg for resale (count 56); not less than 15 kg for resale (count 58); entering a deal to buy 200 g of cocaine for resale, which failed (count 60); and an attempt to smuggle in a large amount of hashish from Holland, which failed (count 61). He had also been convicted of offences under the Stimulants Act for having possessed and transferred not less than 10.6 kg of hashish, which failed as to 6 kg (count 59); and for having possessed 1.632 kg of hashish for resale. 30. In addition he was convicted of coercion by use of violence or threats of violence (counts 54 and 57a); extortion (count 57); theft (count 64); six counts of handling stolen goods (counts 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71); under the Act on Weapons (count 65); and under Article 124 of the Penal Code for having fled as a detainee (count 74). 31. The Supreme Court went on to analyse the case in the light of the Court’s case-law, notably Maslov v. Austria [GC], no.1638/03, ECHR 2008 and took the following into account. 32. The applicant was a stateless Palestinian who had entered Denmark in 1993 at the age of 23. He had been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for comprehensive and organised resale of large amounts of hashish, for attempting to buy 200 g of cocaine, and for attempting to smuggle in hashish. Moreover, the drug trafficking had taken place over more than two and a half years and the applicant had had a leading and central role. 33. In addition he had committed coercion by use of violence or threat of violence against his drug dealers to maintain them as sellers and against clients who could not pay for the drugs. He claimed to have been among the top five members of the “Black Ghost” gang in Odense. He had also been convicted of extortion for having demanded so-called “protection‑money” for “Black Ghost”. Moreover, he had previously been convicted under Article 119 of the Penal Code for violence against a public servant and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. 34. The Supreme Court also emphasised that although the applicant had been in Denmark since 1993, he was not well integrated into Danish society and he had limited Danish language skills. He had no ties to Denmark via work or education. He had been receiving State early retirement pension since 2004. 35. The applicant’s spouse was a Danish citizen. She was born a Palestinian national and had lived briefly in Lebanon, arriving in Denmark at the age of nine. The couple’s children, who at the relevant time were between five and sixteen years old, were also Danish citizens. They were born in Denmark and went to school and institutions in the country. 36. The applicant and his family spoke Arabic. 37. The Supreme Court further noted that the applicant still had ties to Lebanon, where his mother and sister lived and where the applicant had lived until he entered Denmark at the age of 23. He also had ties to Syria, where a sister and her family lived, and where the applicant had stayed for three weeks in 2007, for four weeks in 2008, and in 2009. Before his arrest, the applicant had set about buying an apartment in Syria for the family to use during stays there. 38. The applicant’s spouse had family in Lebanon. Moreover, she had regular contact with the applicant’s sister and family in Syria, and she had spent several vacations there, for instance in 2008 and 2009 as well as one and a half months in 2010 and two months in 2011. She had eighteen siblings in Denmark. She had stated that she would be unable to follow the applicant if he were deported from Denmark to Lebanon or Syria, and that the children would not manage outside Denmark. 39. The majority of six judges concluded: “[the applicant] has had a leading and central role in the commission of persistent, organised and aggravated drug crimes. Despite regard for his spouse and children in Denmark, we therefore find that he should be expelled with a permanent ban on his entry, see section 32, subsection 2 (V), of the Aliens Act.” 40. The minority of one judge found “As found by the majority, [the applicant] is guilty of drug offences of particular gravity. However, I find that regard for his eight minor children makes expulsion conclusively inappropriate, see section 26, subsection 2, of the Aliens Act.” 41. On 11 January 2012 the applicant was convicted for having possessed a mobile phone while in prison. He was sentenced to imprisonment for seven days. 42. It transpires from the Danish Civil Registration System that the applicant and his wife divorced with effect from 21 November 2012. 43. According to the Prison and Probation Service, the applicant had served two-thirds of his sentence on 22 September 2013. 44. In the meantime, on 13 August 2013, the National Police had submitted the applicant’s case to the Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen) for a decision as to whether, upon return, the applicant would risk treatment as described in section 31 of the Aliens Act. 45. Having found, inter alia, that the applicant would not be at risk of being subjected to the death penalty, or to torture, or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment upon return, on 11 July 2014 the Danish Immigration Service found that the applicant could be returned to Lebanon. That decision was upheld on appeal on 19 November 2014 by the Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet). 46. The applicant’s request that the Court apply Rule 39 of the Rules of Court was refused on 23 December 2014 by the Acting President of the Second Section. 47. It appears that the applicant was deported to Lebanon shortly thereafter. II. RELEVANT DOMESTIC LAW AND PRACTICE 48. The relevant provisions of the Penal Code applicable at the time read as follows: “(1) Any person who, contrary to the legislation on controlled substances, delivers a controlled substance to multiple individuals or for significant value or in other particularly aggravating circumstances is sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years. If the substance delivered is a considerable quantity of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or if the delivery transaction has otherwise been of a particularly dangerous nature, the sentence may increase to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 16 years. (2) The same penalty is imposed on any person who imports, exports, purchases, transfers, receives, produces, processes or possesses any such substance contrary to the legislation on controlled substances with intent to deliver the substance as referred to in subsection (I), produce light, heat, power or movement or for other economic purposes is comparable to tangible property.” 49. The relevant provisions of the Aliens Act (udlændingeloven) applicable at the time and relating to the initial court decision on expulsion read as follows: “(1) When an alien is convicted of an offence, the court shall decide in its judgment, upon the public prosecutor’s claim, whether the alien will be expelled pursuant to sections 22-24 or section 25c or be sentenced to suspended expulsion pursuant to section 24b. If the judgment stipulates expulsion, the judgment must state the period of the re-entry ban, see section 32(I) to (4). “(1) An alien who has been lawfully resident in Denmark for more than the last 9 years and an alien issued with a residence permit under section 7 or section 8(1) or (2) who has been lawfully resident in Denmark for more than the last 8 years may be expelled if: (iv) the alien is sentenced, pursuant to the Act on Controlled Substances or section 191 or 290 of the Penal Code, to imprisonment or other criminal sanction involving or allowing deprivation of liberty for an offence that would have resulted in a punishment of this nature, provided that the proceeds were obtained by violation of the Act on Controlled Substances or section 191 of the Penal Code; “(1) In deciding on expulsion by judgment, particularly under section 22 (1)(iv) to (vii), it must be emphasised whether expulsion is deemed particularly necessary because: (i) of the gravity of the offence committed; (ii) of the length of the custodial sentence imposed; (iii) of the danger, damage, harm or infringement involved in the offence committed; (iv) of prior criminal convictions.” Section 24b “(1) An alien may be sentenced to suspended expulsion if the basis for expelling the alien under sections 22 to 24 is found not to be fully adequate because expulsion must be deemed to be particularly burdensome, see section 26(1). …” “(1) In deciding on expulsion, regard must be had to the question of whether expulsion must be assumed to be particularly burdensome, in particular because of: (i) the alien’s ties with Danish society; (ii) the alien’s age, health and other personal circumstances; (iii) the alien’s ties with persons living in Denmark; (iv) the consequences of the expulsion for the alien’s close relatives living in Denmark, including the impact on family unity; (v) the alien’s slight or non-existent ties with his country of origin or any other country in which he may be expected to take up residence; and (vi) the risk that, in cases other than those mentioned in section 7(1) and (2) and section 8(1) and (2), the alien will be ill-treated in his country of origin or any other country in which he may be expected to take up residence. (2) An alien must be expelled under section 22(l)(iv) to (vii) and section 25 unless the circumstances mentioned in subsection (I) make it conclusively inappropriate.” “(1) As a consequence of a court judgment, court order or decision expelling an alien, the alien’s visa and residence permit will lapse, and the alien will not be allowed to re-enter Denmark and stay in this country without special permission (re‑entry ban). A re-entry ban may be time-limited and is reckoned from the first day of the month following departure or return. The re-entry ban is valid from the time of the departure or return. (2) A re-entry ban in connection with expulsion under sections 22 to 24 is imposed:- (v) permanently if the alien is sentenced to imprisonment for more than 2 years or other criminal sanction involving or allowing deprivation of liberty for an offence that would have resulted in a punishment of this duration. 50. The relevant provisions of the Aliens Act relating to the assessment of the risk of persecution upon return read as follows: “(1) Prior to the return of an alien who has been issued with a residence permit under section 7 or section 8(1) or (2) and who has been expelled by judgment, see section 49(1), the Danish Immigration Service shall decide whether the alien can be returned, see section 31, unless the alien consents to the return. A decision to the effect that the alien cannot be returned, see section 31, must also include a decision on the issuance or refusal of a residence permit under section 7.” “(1) The Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) considers appeals against decisions made by the Danish Immigration Service regarding the following matters: (…) (iv) return under sections 32b and 49a.” 51. The relevant provisions of the Aliens Act relating to the courts’ subsequent re-assessment of the expulsion read as follows: “(1) If expulsion under section 49(1) has not been enforced, an alien claiming that a material change in his circumstances has occurred, see section 26, may request that the public prosecutor lays before the court the question of revocation of the order for expulsion. Such request may be submitted not earlier than 6 months and must be submitted not later than 2 months before the date when enforcement of the expulsion can be expected. If the request is submitted at a later date, the court may decide to examine the case if it deems it excusable that the time-limit was exceeded. (2) Section 59(2) of the Penal Code applies correspondingly. The request may be dismissed by the court if it is manifest that no material change has occurred in the alien’s circumstances. If the request is not dismissed, counsel to defend the alien must be assigned on request. The court may order that the alien is to be deprived of his liberty if it is found necessary to ensure the alien’s attendance during proceedings until any decision on expulsion can be enforced. Sections 34, 37(3) and (6) and 37a to 37e apply correspondingly. (3) The court shall make its decision by court order, which is subject to interlocutory appeal under the rules of Part 85 of the Administration of Justice Act.” 52. In respect of the procedure under section 50 of the Aliens Act, the following appears from Notice No. 5/2006 issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions on the Public Prosecutor’s handling of cases against aliens involving expulsion on the basis of a criminal offence: 2.8. Review of expulsion order under section 50 of the Aliens Act 2.8.1. General comments Under section 50(1) of the Aliens Act, an alien who has been expelled by judgment, but whose expulsion has not been enforced, may request within specifically listed time-limits that the Public Prosecutor lay before the court the question of revocation of the order for expulsion. Revocation under section 50 of an order for expulsion presupposes that material changes in the alien’s circumstances have occurred after the original order for expulsion, see section 26 of the Aliens Act. Only material changes in the alien’s circumstances that were not foreseeable when the judgment was delivered may form the basis of a revocation of the expulsion. The circumstances that the alien has managed, after the conviction, to keep in touch with spouse and children and that the family has become more integrated into Danish society during the same period, including becoming Danish nationals, thus cannot form the basis of revocation of the expulsion, see Danish Weekly Law Reports (UfR) 1995.66 Western High Court (V), 1997.1141 Supreme Court order (HKK) and Supreme Court order of 31 July 1997. For more recent case-law on the review under section 50, see Weekly Law Reports 2003.2500 Supreme Court order, 2004.1110 Supreme Court order, and 2005.3425 Supreme Court order.” When a request for a judicial review has been lodged under section 50 of the Aliens Act, the Public Prosecutor must obtain an opinion from the Danish Immigration Service (see section 57(1), second sentence, of the Aliens Act). The submission letter to the Danish Immigration Service must be accompanied by the following: the request for review under section 50, a police report on the circumstances mentioned in section 26 relative to the original proceedings, a police report with a fresh interview of the relevant alien and possibly others about the circumstances mentioned in section 26, and other relevant information of importance to the review. The access to review under section 50 was restricted by Act No. 473 of 1 July 1998 so that it is only possible to review an expulsion order of a judgment once. According to Report No. 1326/1997, the rationale of this restriction was to link the review time wise with the date of the alien’s release for the purpose of expulsion so as to reduce the likelihood of material relevant changes in the alien’s circumstances occurring during the period between the review and the enforcement of the expulsion. It is incumbent on the court, on its own initiative, to see to it that the conditions for review of an expulsion order of a judgment are satisfied, see Danish Weekly Law Reports 2000.2406, Supreme Court. The request may be dismissed by the court if it is manifest that no material change has occurred in the alien’s circumstances. 53. The applicant complained that it was in breach of Article 8 of the Convention to expel him from Denmark as he was be separated from his eight children. The provision reads as follows: “1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.” A. Admissibility 1. Submissions of the parties 54. The Government submitted that the applicant had not exhausted all available domestic remedies since he failed to request that the expulsion order be revoked under section 50, subsection 1, of the Aliens Act. He could thus have submitted that material changes in his circumstances had occurred after the original expulsion order and relied, for example, on the fact that time had passed since the Supreme Court judgment of 12 October 2011 and that he had divorced. 55. The applicant disagreed, and pointed out that he had exhausted domestic remedies by appealing against the original expulsion order to the High Court and the Supreme Court. In his opinion, no significant changes had occurred in his family relations since which could have justified bringing the case before the courts anew. 2. The Court’s assessment 56. The Court notes that a similar issue was raised in Amrollahi v. Denmark, ((dec.), no. 56811/00, 28 June 2001). In that case, however, the applicant had failed to exhaust domestic remedies as regards the original expulsion order whereas he later obtained a full review under section 50 of the Aliens Act by claiming that a material change in his circumstances had occurred. At the relevant time, the Government submitted that the review under section 50 of the Aliens Act could not be considered an effective remedy within the meaning of Article 35 of the Convention. The Court “noted that pursuant to section 50 of the Aliens Act, by claiming that a material change had occurred in his circumstances the applicant was entitled to have the question of revocation of the order to deport him brought before the courts, which at the same time were empowered to rescind the expulsion decision entailed in the original judgment of 1 October 1997. Accordingly, this remedy could provide redress for the applicant’s complaint. Thus, the Court considers that the applicant has exhausted a remedy which is both adequate and effective.” Accordingly, it declared the application partly admissible. 57. The question is therefore whether the applicant in the present case was obliged to exhaust the remedy under section 50 of the Aliens Act, when in his own view no material changes in his circumstances had occurred. The wording of section 50 and Notice No. 5/2006 issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (see paragraphs 51 and 52 above), and general considerations for a proper administration of justice do not support such a finding. 58. On the other hand, if in the application to the Court, an applicant relies on circumstances which occurred subsequent to the deportation order, or it is obvious that a material change has occurred which was not foreseeable when the original expulsion order was delivered, the Court is ready to accept that the remedy under section 50 must be exhausted by the applicant before lodging an application before the Court. 59. In the case before it the Government have pointed to time having passed and the applicant having divorced. The former was foreseeable and there is no information about the impact of the latter on the applicant’s family situation. In particular, the applicant has not submitted in support of his application before the Court that the divorce, which took place shortly after the deportation order, had any negative implications for his possibilities of maintaining contact with his children upon return to Lebanon (see, a contrario, Udeh v. Switzerland, no. 12020/09, § 52, 16 April 2013). In these circumstances, the Court is not convinced that a material change has occurred and that the applicant therefore should have availed himself of the remedy available to him under Section 50, subsection 1, of the Aliens Act. 60. The Court also notes that the application is not manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention. It further notes that it is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible. B. Merits 61. It is not in dispute between the parties that there was an interference with the applicant’s right to respect for his private and family life within the meaning of Article 8, that the expulsion order was “in accordance with the law”, and that it pursued the legitimate aim of preventing disorder and crime. The Court sees no reason to find otherwise. 62. As to the question of whether the interference was “necessary in a democratic society”, the Government emphasised that the Danish courts made a thorough assessment of the applicant’s personal circumstances following the general principles set out in, for example, Üner v. the Netherlands [GC], no. 46410/99, §§ 54-55 and 57-58, ECHR 2006‑XII and Maslov v. Austria [GC], cited above, §§ 72-73, ECHR 2008, and that they very carefully struck a fair balance between the opposing interests. Accordingly, in their view the complaint was manifestly ill-founded. In the alternative, they submitted that there had been no violation of Article 8 of the Convention. 63. The applicant disagreed. He submitted that he had had a central role in the family and that, if expelled, several of his children would feel it necessary to leave Denmark to join him, which would significantly worsen their situation and living conditions. Moreover, if the children remained in Denmark, it should carry decisive weight that they would lose daily contact with their father, regardless of the character of the crime committed. He also pointed out that both the City Court and the High Court found basis for expelling him only conditionally, due to his family situation. 64. The Court reaffirms at the outset that a State is entitled, as a matter of international law and subject to its treaty obligations, to control the entry of aliens into its territory and their residence there (see, among many other authorities, Abdulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali v. the United Kingdom, 28 May 1985, § 67, Series A no. 94). The Convention does not guarantee the right of an alien to enter or to reside in a particular country and, in pursuance of their task of maintaining public order, Contracting States have the power to expel an alien convicted of criminal offences. However, an interference with a person’s private or family life will be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention unless it can be justified under paragraph 2 of that Article as being “in accordance with the law”, as pursuing one or more of the legitimate aims listed therein, and as being “necessary in a democratic society” in order to achieve the aim or aims concerned. The relevant criteria to be applied, in determining whether an interference is necessary in a democratic society, was set out, inter alia, in Üner v. the Netherlands [GC], cited above, §§ 54-55 and 57-58; Maslov v. Austria[GC], cited above, §§ 72-73; Balogun v. the United Kingdom, no. 60286/09, § 46, 10 April 2012; and Samsonnikov v. Estonia, no.52178/10, § 86, 3 July 2012. They are the following: “- the nature and seriousness of the offence committed by the applicant; – the length of the applicant’s stay in the country from which he or she is to be expelled; – the time elapsed since the offence was committed and the applicant’s conduct during that period; – the nationalities of the various persons concerned; – the applicant’s family situation, such as the length of the marriage, and other factors expressing the effectiveness of a couple’s family life; – whether the spouse knew about the offence at the time when he or she entered into a family relationship; – whether there are children of the marriage, and if so, their age; and – the seriousness of the difficulties which the spouse is likely to encounter in the country to which the applicant is to be expelled. – the best interests and well-being of the children, in particular the seriousness of the difficulties which any children of the applicant are likely to encounter in the country to which the applicant is to be expelled; and – the solidity of social, cultural and family ties with the host country and with the country of destination.” 65 The Supreme Court’s legal point of departure was the relevant sections of the Aliens Act, the Penal Code, and notably the criteria to be applied in the proportionality assessment by virtue of Article 8 of the Convention and the Court’s case-law. 66. The Supreme Court found that the applicant had a leading and central role in the commission of persistent, organised and aggravated drug crimes. More concretely, he was convicted of 18 criminal offences, including notably drug trafficking and drug dealing with regard to a significant amount of hashish (more than 100 kg in total, in addition to an attempt to import a large supply from Holland) and an attempt to buy 200 g of cocaine, all committed in the period from 2006 until 9 September 2009. The Court has held on previous occasions that it understands – in view of the devastating effects drugs have on people’s lives – why the authorities show great firmness to those who actively contribute to the spread of this scourge (see, among others, Savasci v. Germany (dec.), 45971/08, § 27, 19 March 2013; Samsonnikov v. Estonia, cited above, § 49; A.W. Khan v. the United Kingdom, no. 47486/06, § 40; 12 January 2010; Sezen v. the Netherlands, no. 50252/99, § 43, 31 January 2006; and Amrollahi v. Denmark, no. 56811/00, § 37, 11 July 2002). 67. The Supreme Court also took into account that the applicant was a member of a gang and had a leading role in relation to the drug dealers under him, whom he had subjected to violence and threats, and that he had previous convictions from 2000, 2005 and 2007. 68. The applicant was 23 years old when he entered Denmark in 1993 and he had stayed in Denmark for approximately 18 years when the deportation order became final by the Supreme Court judgment of 12 October 2011. 69. The applicant was arrested on 9 September 2009 and remained imprisoned until the deportation order was implemented at the end of 2014. During his imprisonment, on 11 January 2012 he was sentenced to a further seven days’ imprisonment for having possessed a mobile phone in prison. 70. The applicant is a stateless Palestinian, born in Lebanon, where he stayed until the age of 23. The applicant’s ex-wife is a Danish citizen. She was born a Palestinian national and lived briefly in Lebanon, until she arrived in Denmark at the age of nine. The couple’s children were Danish citizens and born in Denmark. 71. As to the applicant’s ties with Denmark, the Supreme Court observed that he was not well integrated into Danish society and he had limited Danish language skills. He had no ties to Denmark via work or education. He had been receiving State early retirement pension since 2004. The applicant and his family spoke Arabic. 72. As to the applicant’s connections with his country of origin, the Supreme Court noted that the applicant still had ties to Lebanon, where his mother and sister lived and where the applicant had lived until he entered Denmark. He also had ties to Syria, where a sister and her family lived, and where the applicant had stayed for three weeks in 2007, for four weeks in 2008, and in 2009. Before his arrest, the applicant had set about buying an apartment in Syria for the family to use during stays there. The applicant’s now ex-spouse had family in Lebanon. Moreover, she had regular contact with the applicant’s sister and family in Syria, and she had spent several vacations there, for instance in 2008 and 2009 as well as one and a half months in 2010 and two months in 2011. She had eighteen siblings in Denmark. At the relevant time, she had stated that she would not follow the applicant if he were deported from Denmark to Lebanon or Syria, and that the children would not live outside Denmark. 73. The applicant and his wife married in 1994, long before the offences at issue were committed. Thus, the criterion of whether the spouse knew about the offence at the time when he or she entered into a family relationship does not come into play in the present case. In respect of their marriage, it is noteworthy, though, that the spouses divorced with effect from 21 November 2012, less than two months after the deportation order became final. Moreover, in the domestic proceedings an amount of DKK 404,500 and gold jewellery were found in the applicant’s home and confiscated as profit from the crimes, and it was observed that the applicant and his wife, who both received State benefits and who, when calculating their expenses, apparently had a deficit in their household budget for 2007, 2008 and 2009 amounting to a total of at least DKK 2.5 million, could not substantiate that they had obtained the goods legally. For example, the applicant’s wife denied knowledge of a receipt dated 20 October 2008 for gold jewellery bought in her name in Dubai for DKK 43,000. Moreover, documents were presented before the Supreme Court showing that over a period of less than 5 months, up until the applicant was arrested, there had been nine hundred and sixty‑seven calls to and from overseas numbers on the applicant’s and his wife’s home telephone. In addition, from January 2006 to June 2011 the applicant, his wife and their children had made various transfers of money to Syria and Lebanon. 74. The remaining criteria in the case to be examined are “whether there are children of the marriage, and if so, their age” and “the best interests and well-being of the children, in particular the seriousness of the difficulties which any children of the applicant are likely to encounter in the country to which the applicant is to be expelled”. 75. In its judgment, Jeunesse v. the Netherlands [GC], (no. 12738/10, § 109, 3 October 2014), which concerned family reunion, the Court reiterated “that there is a broad consensus, including in international law, in support of the idea that in all decisions concerning children, their best interests are of paramount importance … Whilst alone they cannot be decisive, such interests certainly must be afforded significant weight. Accordingly, national decision-making bodies should, in principle, advert to and assess evidence in respect of the practicality, feasibility and proportionality of any removal of a non-national parent in order to give effective protection and sufficient weight to the best interests of the children directly affected by it.” 76. Whilst this principle applies to all decisions concerning children, the Court notes that in the context of a removal of a non-national parent as a consequence of a criminal conviction, the decision first and foremost concerns the offender. Furthermore, as case-law has shown, in such cases the nature and seriousness of the offence committed or the offending history may outweigh the other criteria to take into account (see, for example, Üner v. the Netherlands [GC], cited above, §§ 62-64 and Cömert v. Denmark (dec.), 14474/03, 10 April 2006). 77. In the present case, the applicant’s eight children were between 5 and 16 years old when the deportation order became final. Before the Supreme Court the applicant’s then wife stated that she would be unable to follow the applicant if he were deported from Denmark, and that the children would not manage outside Denmark. During the domestic proceedings, statements were obtained from the Children’s Department at the municipality and the children’s schools and day-care institutions, which recounted that several of the eight children had serious problems, including of a psychological and educational nature (see paragraph 25 above). Four of the children received special education and several of the children needed extra support and supervision in their schools and institutions. Massive public support measures had been provided due to a significant need to teach them normal social behaviour. Finally, the placement of some of the sons in public care was under consideration. 78. In the Court’s view it is doubtful whether, on the basis of those statements, or on the material before it, the applicant has substantiated that he had a central role in the family (see paragraph 63 above) and that his children’s best interests were adversely affected by his deportation (see, for example, A.W. Khan v. the United Kingdom, cited above, § 40). 79. The Supreme Court did not expressly state whether it found that there were no insurmountable obstacles for the applicant’s wife and children to follow him. It rather appears that the majority found that in any event the separation of the applicant from his wife and children could not outweigh the other counterbalancing factors, notably that the applicant had a leading and central role in the commission of persistent, organised and aggravated drug crimes (see paragraph 39 above). 80. The Court notes in addition that it transpired from the statements mentioned above (see paragraphs 25 and 77) that several of the applicant’s eight children had serious problems and therefore were being supported by various Danish authorities. 81. Finally, the Court notes that the applicant has not pointed to any obstacles for the children to visit him in Lebanon or for the family to maintain contact via the telephone or the internet. 82. In the light of the above, the Court recognises that the Supreme Court carefully balanced the competing interests and explicitly took into account the criteria set out in the Court’s case‑law, including the applicant’s family situation. Moreover, having regard to the gravity of the drug crimes committed by the applicant, and considering the sovereignty of member States to control and regulate the residence of aliens on their territory, the Court finds that the interference was supported by relevant and sufficient reasons, and was proportionate in that a fair balance was struck between the applicant’s right to respect for his family life, on the one hand, and the prevention of disorder or crime, on the other hand. 83. Accordingly, there has been no violation of Article 8 of the Convention. FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY, 1. Declares the application admissible; 2. Holds that there has been no violation of Article 8 of the Convention; Done in English, and notified in writing on 1 December 2016, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court. Hasan BakırcıIşıl Karakaş Deputy RegistrarPresident Udfærdiget af Tobias Jensen ←ÆLDRE NYERE → Indtast sagsnummer, klager, stat etc. SORTER EFTER ARTIKEL Artikel 1 Artikel 2 Artikel 3 Artikel 10 Artikel 11 Artikel 12 P1, Artikel 1 Tobias JensenCand.jur. Domstolen foretager følgende test, såfremt der konstateres et indgreb i EMRK artikel 5 og 8-11, for at klarlægge, om der foreligger en krænkelse: 1. Indgrebet skal have hjemmel 2. Indgrebet skal forfølge et legitimt formål 3. Indgrebet skal være "nødvendigt i et demokratisk samfund". (proportionalitet) Undtagelsesvist har staten efter EMRK artikel 15 en videregående adgang til at fravige konventionen. Hauschildt mod Danmark, sagsnummer 10486/83 Proudly powered by WordPress \| Theme: Newsmin Udgivet og vedligeholdt af cand.jur. 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__label__cc	0.689134	0.310866	Features • Performance Published 13 May 2014 Disability, Process and Integration Lucy Bennett, Artistic Director of Stopgap Dance Company, talks about social integration in performance and process ahead of the London premiere of their latest piece, Artificial Things, at Sadler's Wells. Lucy Bennett Stopgap Dance Company works with exceptional disabled and non-disabled dancers to make exhilarating performances. We tour nationally and internationally to represent what social integration might look like using the medium of movement and physical expression. The merits of working with a diverse cast might seem quite obvious when our artistic aim is to depict integration, but I hope to elaborate on this on this by talking about our artistic goal and how our cast is involved in the devising process. When a diverse cast works as a cohesive unit, it inevitably gives a strong visual message to its audiences. People tend to perceive a utopia of social cohesion when we display unity and dystopia when we exaggerate the differences. It’s fair to say that they might see cliched scenes of a disabled person being ostracised and some ideals about unity amongst diversity, but we have a team who can have frank conversations and dig much deeper into these obvious ideas during the creative process. The reality about disability and integration is much more complex than what people assume, and our work aims to expose the different degrees to which cohesion can be attained. To achieve our artistic goal, I collaborate with a tightly knit team of dancers who experience disabilty and integration on a daily basis and are willing to express opinions about my ideas and begin a dialogue about their experiences. Some of our dancers have been with the company for over a decade, so they are quite open to exploring the issues at hand. The sense of trust is very important in developing work as a collective, and their involvement as collaborators means that our work has more authentic emotional force. In a subtle way, our dancers are revealing some personal truths in our work, and I think this is what makes it appealing to our audience. I particularly enjoy working with learning disabled dancers because they tend to have less inhibition, and their ability to become immersed within their fantasy is invaluable during the devising process. They give me fresh and honest ideas and their ability to be ‘in the zone’ has a positive effect on everyone. In this collaborative devising process, it’s important to create a horizontal and not vertical working relationship. The joy of being in integrated dance is the richness of what the dancers can give you, so it’s important to listen, watch and work with them. A type of top down method wouldn’t work very well. As a choreographer, I’m also interested in alternative ways of moving and in creating a new visual language from them. For me, it’s not about getting the dancers to pretend to hit the conventional dance shapes and lines, but coming up with entirely new ones that our dancers can offer as a group. It’s important to stress at this point that disabled dancers involved in our touring work are not amateurs. They might not focus on those shapes and lines, but they work hard at getting to know their bodies and finding bespoke techniques. During their training, they refine their capacity for physical expression just as hard as non-disabled dancers do. At Stopgap, we have trained our own disabled dancers over the last 15 years, and we are currently nurturing a handful of new ones. Most of our non-disabled dancers have also been with the company for a number of years and have developed a real understanding of alternative dance aesthetic too. Through this long-standing involvement of core individuals, we’ve devised a unique method of blending our individual styles to create a collective movement vocabulary, and this is the secret behind our ability to physically express integration. Dance is a form of physical and non-verbal expression, and it can make you feel and think about complicated things like social integration in a very direct way. In this sense, it has an advantage over words and theatre. By nurturing and working with artists who know about the issues at hand, we aime to redefine old ideas and bring about new perspectives through our work. Stopgap Dance Company will be performing Artificial Things at Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells, London on 13th and 14th May as part of the =dance series. Stopgap will also be delivering a workshop on 14th May at Sadler’s Wells.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line34
__label__cc	0.636604	0.363396	http://www.archofhell.com Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/archofhell The band was founded in the beginning of 2006 in Brno, Czech Republic. For a long time we were trying to name the style of music we were creating. And it was not easy, because the beginnings were not so consistent. We see ourselves as playing an aggressively conceived sympho metal – this relates mainly to the new hot material ranking as sympho/melodic metal with death metal edge. Thinking of the band monicker we wanted to bet on a simple card, hence ARCH OF HELL. There are plenty of weird and twisted band names around the extreme music scene, and we hope ARCH OF HELL is simple, easy to remember, yet mysterious. The original founding line-up consisted of the essential band member Swarm on guitar and vocals, Deamon on another guitar, Jura on bass and charming Iscariah ..boards. The band started working, coming up with the "Overall Death" demo after six months of existence, released after some addition al touches in the end of 2006. At that time, the line up sees some changes, namely Scyrion replaces Deamona on guitar and Indian joins on drums. The demo release receives positive response from fans as well as various reviewers from metal webzines (www.metalswamp.com – 90%; http://www.metalzone.info - 7.5/10). These were the beginnings only, though. After the release we started to play live. We shared stages in the Czech Republic with international as well as local famous names, such as AGONIZE /Bosnia and Herzegovina/, BLOODY SIGN /France/, PORTIKUS /Slovakia/, SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, INTERITUS, ABSTRACT ESSENCE, FATALITY, FROM BEYOND, FLOWERWHILE, IQUISTA FIRIEL, INFINITE DARK... And there are other gigs still to come: ARKONA /Russia/, SEEDS OF SORROW /Austria/, RADOGOST /Poland/, ADOR DORATH, AMORTEZ, BELLIGERENCE, ABSURD CONFLICT... More line-up changes occurred due to different priorities and demands. The band was joined for certain time by another drummer Insomnic who recorded the single Nostalgia (2008). After hopefully the last major line-up change we stay as follows: Swarm – guitar, vocals; Childy - guitar; Ivanow - bass; Moorth – keyboards, fronted by beautiful mezzo-soprano singer Morticia. In mid 2007 the band started composing new songs, rearranging and developing them over time. After a year of work we have a full length album worth of material, more precisely almost an hour, and plan to hit one of the best metal studios in our country guided by experienced Stanislav Valášek, enjoying also the accompaniment of a string orchestra and a small choir. The title of the album is "One Day", representing a day spent in the mind of a man thinking of a better world than the one we live in. Symphonic Gothic Metal	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line37
__label__cc	0.542765	0.457235	Board index » All About Manny Pacquiao » Manny Pacquiao's Previous Fights » Pacquiao vs De La Hoya The Truth Behind Pacquiao’s Win Over De La Hoya Piolo Post subject: The Truth Behind Pacquiao’s Win Over De La Hoya Dead Man Walking: The Truth Behind Manny Pacquiao’s Win Over Oscar De La Hoya By Geoff “The Professor” Poundes-December 18, 2008 As scores of boxing “pundits” worldwide eat humble pie and re-calibrate their crystal balls, this writer would like to mount a defense for those of us who could not see a way for Manny Pacquiao to trouble Oscar De La Hoya in the big one on December 6th. My argument is a simple one: De La Hoya was no more than a husk of a man in the fight, having weight-drained to such an extent that he could hardly lift his arms from the second round on. Now, as close watchers of this game of ours, perhaps we scribes should have given greater consideration pre-fight to the possibility that Oscar would debilitate his body in the way that he did, but come on, give us a break: an 8-Time World Champion, 16-year professional, the richest and hence the most resourceful fighter in history and the most marketable name in boxing – how could anyone predict that a man of such stature would so misjudge his own physical condition coming in to so huge an occasion? In truth, what we all misjudged, perhaps including even De La Hoya himself, was how closely he covets the mighty dollar. Roundly criticized for even considering making the match with Pacquiao, which was viewed by many (myself included) as no more than a cynical commercial exercise, De La Hoya was faced with the challenge of making the match “real” if the fight public were going to tune in – he had to even things out, reduce the differentials, give the casual fan something upon which to hang their hat. Pacquiao himself had made it clear after his defeat of David Diaz, itself a leap in weight for the little Filipino at 135 pounds, that fighting De La Hoya would be too great a gap to bridge. Step forward Oscar, dollar signs flashing in his eyes – to make the match at 147 pounds, a weight that the American hadn’t seen for eight years and a target that at age 35 ultimately proved impossible to reach without ruining all that a body needs to box competitively. I think De La Hoya walked up the ring steps that night knowing that he was in no condition to fight – but the cash was in the tills, the spotlight was on, and, hey, the guy on the other side of the ring was just a little Filipino who had been knocked out by flyweights before now. It’s somewhat ironic that Pacquiao’s people dismiss those early reverses in the Pacman’s career as aberrations brought about by debilitating weight loss to make the flyweight limit, and you know I think they’re right: Manny’s subsequent career and hop through the weight classes, seemingly becoming more successful and destructive the heavier he gets, bears witness that something was up in those early losses. And similarly, something was clearly up on December 6th. Amid rumors that De La Hoys had made 147 as much as a month before the fight in training camp, there were whispers and worries at the weigh-in itself, when Oscar tipped the scales at 145, with some observers noting the marks in the American’s arms which they took to suggest De La Hoya had been intravenously injected. The last time De La Hoya had weighed less than 145 was in 1998 for the Chavez fight. On the scales Oscar looked pared down, thin, wan, almost anemic. On the other hand, Pacquiao looked well muscled, energized and ready for battle. Observers had long felt the deciding factor in the fight would not be the boxer’s weight at the official weigh-in, but the 36 hours or so between weigh-in and fight-time. Most believed that Oscar would pack on the pounds, re-hydrate and re-vitalize, and enter the ring some 14 pounds or more heavier than his opponent. Imagine the shock, therefore, when the two fighters were weighed an hour or so before entering the ring, and Oscar had gained no more than a couple of pounds. Seasoned onlookers began to shake their head. Something was up. There have been rumors post-fight that the contract carried some severe financial penalties for the De La Hoya camp should he have come in overweight, and Oscar himself had talked about new diets and new regimes for this particular fight. If so, Pacquiao’s people got this one absolutely right – and won the poker game before it even started. De La Hoya, blinded by the dollars, gave it all away at the outset. I don’t want to take anything away from Manny Pacquiao – he beat the man in front of him fairly and squarely and with some exquisite punch-and-get-out boxing that would have had a fully fit De La Hoya reaching for his “A” game. But his opponent on this night, with a body in the condition that it was in, would have lost handily to any leading welterweight or light-welterweight on the roster. The fact is, as many of us declared beforehand, the fight should never have taken place. I contend that in the winning of it Manny has not become a factor at 147 pounds any more than he would have been had he lost. He’s simply not big enough to share a ring with a Antonio Margarito, or a Miguel Cotto – both of whom would bring to the match the kind of combination of youth, power, fitness and speed that poor Oscar was incapable of on December 6th. For me Pacquiao becomes a competitive light-welterweight, and if the ducks line up he should get a shot at the rejuvenated Ricky Hatton in 2009 – and that will be the time to judge the Philippine and his legacy. Hatton has his own failed experiment with jumping weight for Manny to learn from, for if he thinks he’s nailed it with the victory over De La Hoya, he may be in for a rude awakening. As for the Golden Boy, he knows what went wrong. He told Larry Merchant in the immediate aftermath of the fight, before the microphones were switched on, that he had beaten himself. To his credit, once the broadcaster began to question him on the statement, he refused to elaborate, simply stating that he felt weak and that Pacquiao had fought a great fight. I was reminded of Kelly Pavlik’s interview on his way to the dressing room after he jumped 10 pounds to give Bernard Hopkins the opportunity to smoke him, when the fighter alluded to “problems” before the fight, later revealed as bronchitis, but then retracted after prompting by his handlers and gave all the credit to his opponent. Upon reflection both De La Hoya and Pavlik may have cause to regret that they ignored their bodies to chase down the dollars. De La Hoya was not alone in his assessment. Eric Brown (Pacquaio’s assistant trainer) was asked to recount Manny’s victory: “I’m not sure if Oscar was a hundred percent. It appeared as though he (Oscar) went overboard in trying to maintain his lower weight. He may have gone too long in camp in coming down in weight that his stomach shrunk and he wasn’t able to eat properly anymore because he was too drained. I believe he was over trained.” Amen to that. I don’t think Oscar will want to go out in the manner that he did. I think we’ll see De La Hoya fight again, at a sustainable weight, when his body can do justice to his legacy. http://www.ringsidereport.com/rsr/news. ... dmore=1446 jaylu Post subject: Re: The Truth Behind Pacquiao’s Win Over De La Hoya "Oscar can't pull the trigger anymore" - Freddie Roach	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line39
__label__cc	0.684186	0.315814	Speech Alone May Spread COVID-19, Study Shows THURSDAY, May 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Small respiratory droplets produced while talking can hang in the air for at least eight minutes and perhaps even longer, researchers report. The finding could explain why new coronavirus infections are more common in nursing homes, cruise ships and other confined locations with limited ventilation, the Washington Post reported. The researchers used laser light to assess levels of small respiratory droplets that leave people's mouths when they speak. The study was published May 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Highly sensitive laser light scattering observations have revealed that loud speech can emit thousands of oral fluid droplets per second," the researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the University of Pennsylvania wrote. It's been suspected that small droplets can spread the new coronavirus, but there are conflicting opinions among experts. There is widespread agreement that the virus is typically spread through large respiratory droplets, the Post reported. This new study did not involve the coronavirus or any other virus, but instead just looked at how people generate respiratory droplets when they talk, the Post reported. The experiment focused on small droplets that can linger in the air much longer. These droplets could contain enough virus particles to infect someone, the authors said, the Post reported. Louder speech produces even more droplets, the scientists added. Just one minute of "loud speaking" could generate almost 1,000 virus-containing droplets that stay in the air for more than eight minutes. "This study is the most accurate measure of the size, number and frequency of droplets that leave the mouth during a normal conversation and shower any listeners within range," Benjamin Neuman, a virologist at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, told the Post. The research "doesn't directly test whether the virus can be transmitted by talking, but it builds a strong circumstantial case that droplets produced in a normal close conversation would be large enough and frequent enough to create a high risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2 or any other respiratory virus between people who are not wearing face masks," Neuman told the newspaper. Andrew Noymer, a University of California at Irvine epidemiologist, told the Post that, "speech creates droplets that breathing alone does not. That much is clear. Big mouths of the world, beware. You're putting the rest of us at risk." Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on COVID-19. SOURCE: May 13, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Washington Post	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.543257	0.456743	Half my brain liked The Losers the other half isn’t so sure. First the good things… The comedy – it wasn’t always timed perfectly – but there was plenty of humour and it was drawn from the characters. The action was solid and sometimes creative. The way The Losers could be casual when going up against what appeared to be tough opposition made a change from the oh to0 serious, walk slowly away from explosions without looking back school of action hero. The moment when Clay and Roque take a moment to enjoy an explosion was really refreshing. Thats when Clay and Roque really work – not when they’re banging heads. Jensen, the tech guy, wasn’t just there as a comedy element. He might not have been able to handle himself as much as some of the other characters but he wasn’t helpless or tied to a keyboard. He gets some good moments, especially in the sequence where he breaks into the office building. Jason Patric’s villain seems more self-aware of his villany than any bad guy since Benedict in Last Action Hero. He had something of an old school Bond villain about him but with a twist of Tarantino. The minor things… Don’t Stop Believing is a nice song. I like it. I don’t own it but I like it. It’s a shame they couldn’t pick a song that’s not been done to death of late for such a prominent role in the soundtrack. With a different song the film could have been setting a trend rather than following where others have been. The styling was a bit in your face and a bit too obvious. Tropical Thunder has done for this school of action film what Monty Python’s Holy Grail did for coconuts as hoof beats. Thats a shame because if it had a bit more of its own visual language it could have been really great. I’ve not read the original comics. It’s a shame because the comic book imagery used at the start and end hints at a visual language that could have played a bigger part in the film without going down the 300 / Sin City route. Idris Elba: I like Idris Elba. I thought he was good in Ultraviolet and excellent in The Wire. Unfortunately since then he seems to be taking roles that involve him chewing the scenery as much as possible. That could be good. He can clearly act. “Stringer” Bell in The Wire had more range and greater subtlety than either his current part as Luther on the BBC or Roque and that is a shame. The plot isn’t full of wholes [note: that should be full of holes – normally I’d change it but I love that turn of phrase] but it doesn’t feel entirely developed or possibly not fully explained. It’s there more as a vehicle for the action. I’ll live with that – its true of plenty of action films and many have plots with bigger holes. Now the bad thing… The film didn’t allow me to invest in the characters destinies. I didn’t care enough about them. When they got shot I should have cared. When one of them goes bad I should have cared. I didn’t. That was the films major flaw for me. Die Hard is a good action film – it’s a great action film because I care what happens to John McClane. The same is true of Lethal Weapon and lots of other action films. There were things written in to make us like the characters in The Losers: the heroes rescue the children at the start and suffer for it, Jensen’s niece, Pooch’s pregnant wife and Clay’s problems with women. Everyone except Roque had something (and maybe what he needed was something to give him some depth). However it felt like the film maker begrudged having to use those humanising elements for anything other than comedy value. They might have been better off without the clutter and going for the anonymous ’60s style Mission Impossible agents defined by their relationships with each other. The Losers is a good, silly action film that I feel could have been an awful lot better had the style been a bit fresher and if I we’d been given a reason to care more about the characters. Maybe I’m analysing the film too much in the hope that there would be something else if I scratched the surface. Lime Street Station Uncovered 2 Responses to The Losers impworks Saturday, May 29th, 2010 I really wish that was what I ment to say. It is so much better than a bad typo. Dan Diplo Saturday, May 29th, 2010 "The plot isn’t full of wholes" is a nice phrase, even if it is probably a typo! Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Men of Action!	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line46
__label__cc	0.583711	0.416289	Video Documentaries Detailed Documentary LEAP COVERS 112,367 HOUSEHOLDS IN 3 REGIONS OF THE NORTH Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba ... MINISTRY SENSITISES MMDCES, MMDCDS ON LEAP The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has held ... FREE SHS A SIGNIFICANT TOOL FOR POVERTY ERADICATION-MINISTER The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection Madam Otiko ... ‘WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE GHANA’ – GENDER MINISTER The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Madam Otiko ... 52ND Cycle LEAP Payment The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme since its inception ... Training of Trainers Workshop for DSWOs AND CSOs Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) is a social protection intervention ... 50th Cycle LEAP payment The LEAP Programme since its inception in 2008 has been ... 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The Life Changing Story of Aneba Awumtumyiga and Sister – LEAP Programme BeneficiariesAugust 30, 2016 - 7:43 am “I thank the government for giving me this opportunity” – Zinabu SumailaAugust 30, 2016 - 7:29 am The Life Changing Story of Awenemi Apogyanga – LEAP Programme BeneficiaryAugust 30, 2016 - 6:55 am Becoming a Beneficiary Government of Ghana MoGCSP GNHR LIPW Address: P.O.Box MBO 471, Ministries, Accra Call us: (+233) 303 969 399/ 303 969 700 E-mail: info@leap.gov.gh © Copyright - Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty - Enfold Child WordPress Theme by Kriesi OUR DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS © Copyright 2021. LEAP Programme Ghana. Powered by VTB Mr Myles Ongoh Mr. Myles Ongoh is a professional social worker with over 20years of practice. Mr. Ongoh started his professional practice from the sub-national to the national levels where he worked in different capacities and on different social issues. He rose through the ranks of social work practice from a Social Development Assistant through to an Assistant Director. In his career, he has been involved in case work, domestic violence and child protection and mobility. These experiences have widened his understanding issues of particularly vulnerability and poverty. He has also been a Lecturer at the School of Social Work at Osu, Accra where he taught and guided students in the course, Social Policy and Family Welfare whiles serving as the Dean of Students. To further broaden his understanding of social issues, Mr Ongoh has pursued a steady academic path consistent with his social work practice and development in general. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the University of Ghana focusing on post retirement survival strategies and quality of life among pensioners in Ghana. He holds Master of Arts degree in Social Policy Studies, Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work and Diploma in Social Administration, all from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also obtained a Certificate in Social Work from the School of Social Work. Mr. Ongoh has presented published papers in different peer review conferences which deepened policy dialogue and also contributed to knowledge. He has conducted several researches, sometimes serving as a lead researcher and other times as a research assistant. Finally, he is a team player and a respect of diversity. Seth K. Amofa Mrs Mabel Kumah My name is Mrs Mabel Kumah, the Accountant of the LEAP Programme. I have worked with Controller and Accountant General’s Department for over 15 years in various capacities in a couple of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) including the Treasury Headquarters. I am a member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). I also hold Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Bachelor of Commerce Degrees. I am married with children. Alhaji Lateef Mamudu Alhaji Lateef Mamudu is a senior civil servant and has Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting from Tamale Polytechnic and a Bachelors Degree in Accounting from Ghana Institute Of Management And Public Administration (GIMPA). Lateef started work with Ghana Post Company Limited Tamale in 2006 and in 2007 he got employed as Internal Auditor in the Office Of The President and rose through the ranks to become a Principal Internal Auditor. He currently works with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection as an internal auditor for the LEAP Programme, he has been working in the Government sector for 10 years. Jeremiah Yanney Jeremiah Yanney is a City & Guilds of London Institute Certificate & Diploma holder in Microprocessors and Microcomputer Technology, Microsoft A+, Networking+ and (MCP) Microsoft Certified Professional, (MCSE) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, FSK systems. He has specialized skills in Hardware, Networking, Systems administration, MIS consultancy, training, and a Certificate in Social protection (CSPS, University of Ghana). Jeremiah has 16 years Practical experience in computer Hardware architecture, Microprocessors, microcomputer technology, including local and wide area network installation, DVR, CCTV programming and installation VSAT and Ubiquity Nano Wireless Radio installations FSK which is an alarm system programming and reporting mechanism Jeremiah also has 9 years experience in MIS consultancy, and over the years worked for and provided consultancy services for a variety of private and public sector organisations. He is currently the Head of MIS Unit, LEAP Programme, He has oversight responsibility of managing and spearheading all MIS activities under the LEAP Programme which includes MIS system development, technology advice and facilitation of training workshops. Thomas Boateng Quaison Thomas Boateng Quaison holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Information Studies from University of Ghana. He has undergone training on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) including Evaluation of Social Programmes at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA) at the University of Ghana Business School and Project Management Professionals (PMP) at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. Seconded from the Department of Social Welfare, Thomas joined the LEAP Programme in 2012 and has since 2014 remained the Head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit where he works to ensure that the M&E system developed for the LEAP Programmme in 2013 is effectively implemented.This include the development of a detailed operational processes around M&E data collection, analysis, reporting and feedback frameworks. Achaligabe Colson Akanbasiam Achaligabe Colson Akanbasiam (Mr) is the Head of Case Management of the LEAP programme. He has over 15 years working experience in both governmental and non-governmental organisations. He holds a Master of Philosophy Degree in Gender and Development (Norway) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology with Political Science (Ghana). His work experiences and educational developments have built his expertise in the areas of social protection; cash transfer programming, microfinance, entrepreneurship and informal economy and gender issues in development. Equally, he has conducted research works and has publications and conference presentations (in the areas of microfinance and gender, civil society and sustainability issues) to his credit. He is flexible, has attention for detail with interpersonal and communication skills that enable him to communicate effectively and to work in multi-cultural settings while being culturally sensitive. Mr Akanbasiam has passion for issues of gender, social justices and inequality particularly for the underprivileged and the marginalised. His passion, work experiences and educational developments have conspired to inform and guide his work ethics in managing the receipt, recording, investigating and resolution of cases and sharing of feedback on the outcome of cases to petitioners and other stakeholders Richard Azina Nartey Richard Azina Nartey joined the LEAP team in September 2013 as Assistant to the Head of Operations Unit, having previously worked as a Programme Officer on the National Social Protection Strategy at the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Richard worked with Youth and Women Empowerment (CSO) as Youth Coordinator, Project Manager and Executive Director. He has an MPhil Social Work from University of Ghana and BSc Planning from KNUST. As Head of Payment at the LEAP Programme, he is responsible for executing all activities leading to payment of LEAP grant to beneficiaries, supporting the planning and budgeting for LEAP Programme activities, reconciliation of LEAP payment reports with Payment Service Providers (PSPs). He is also a member of Procurement team of the Programme. Felix Kwaku Logah Felix Kwaku Logah Felix Kwaku Logah is the head of operations for the LEAP Programme. He is the lead in planning and implementing LEAP Programme design parameters. He is responsible for targeting and enrollment activities. He is a professional Social Worker who holds Masters degree in Development Studies, Bachelor in Social Work and Clinical Psychology, Certificate in Public Heath all from University of Ghana, Legon. Trained in Designing and Implementing Social Cash Transfer in the Economic and Policy Research Institute, Cape Town -South Africa, Trained in Development Evaluation (IPDET) in Carleton University, Ottawa-Canada. Felix has been part of Ghanaian delegations to the United Nations Social Development Conference on Social Development in 2015 and 2016 in New York, where he presented on the LEAP Programme of Ghana. He has also represented the country on Social Protection conferences in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania. He is a member of the Community of Practitioners in Social Protection for the Africa Region. He is also currently the Task Team Leader for the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) in establishing the Social Protection Institutional Structures. Dzigbordi Kofi Agbekpornu Dzigbordi Kofi Agbekpornu is the National LEAP Manager and is responsible for leading the team at LEAP Management Secretariat to achieve the Programme objectives. He also coordinates and manages programme activities across the country at regional, district and community levels. Dzigbordi is a Management Specialist, a Financial Analyst and a Turnaround Expert who is multi-skilled, with over sixteen (16) years of working experience, of which ten (10) has been in Senior and Executive positions in fast paced working environments. Dzigbordi is a Chartered Accountant, a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) -UK, and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICA)-Ghana. Dzigbordi also holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Ghana Business School, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture (Economics option) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He has attended a number of executive development courses both in and outside Ghana, including one at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Dzigbordi was a member of Ghana’s delegation to a social protection mission at the World Bank Head Office in Washington in 2015, and participated in the Social Development conference at the United Nations Head Office in New York in 2015 and 2016. Prior to joining the LEAP Team, Dzigbordi worked with a number of organizations at senior and executive positions. He was the Chief Operating Officer of Dalex Finance and Leasing Company, a leading financial institution. His work at Dalex Finance contributed to the Company being ranked the 16th best company in Ghana club 100 in 2013. Dzigbordi started his career as a Trainee Accountant with MGI HydeFynn and Osei (Chartered Accountants), and then later joined John Kay and Co (Chartered Accountants), and John Kay Associates( Management Consultants) as an Audit Senior.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line51
__label__cc	0.73567	0.26433	Presentation/2 �European Group of Economic Interest�, KOINETWORK � An Agency for the internationalization of cultures and initiatives � was created in 2002 under the rules of European legislation. What is entitled Koinetwork e.g.e.i. is a European Group of Economic Interest under the rules of European legislation. It has been created in Fall 2002 as TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservetion of the Industrial Heritage) European Agency and remains linked to TICCIH according to the terms of an agreement which specifies its scientific and managerial role and, at the same times, its full legal and financial autonomy. Since its foundation, Koinetwork has been in charge of selecting, launching and preparing the application files of several projects co-financed by the European Commission, mainly in the field of the cultural and scientific promotion of Industrial Heritage as well in the communication on this field � and then of performing the administrative management of the projects within the partnership and between partners and the European Commission. Over the three past years, several one year or three years projects related to the cultural and scientific programmes of the European Commission were prepared under the lead of Koinetwork and won the support of the European Commission. Due to that kind of action the group has become able to act as a network of competencies, by considerably expanding the range of the members or friends of TICCIH, by consolidating exchange networks including institutional partners, businesses, associations and European organismes. One of its main preoccupations is to gather collaborations from all areas of a European Union on the way of geographical expansion and cultural and scientific diversification. Koinetwork is offering its support to the initiatives of TICCIH members, either as individuals, constituents of the national committees or scholars involved in the work of the thematic research sections. Beyond that, the group is defending the role of Industrial Heritage in the administrative and territorial policies of sustainable development. It is interested in the promotion of Industrial Heritage by its inclusion in the training both by means of learning in presence and of distant learning � in particular, the group adheres to different projects of internationalisation of higher education, even by e-learning. Besides, Koinetwork has a strong interest in wide-spreading the knowledge and communication of Industrial Heritage, by traditional printed means as well as through multimedia instruments. The group has now become the publisher of the international Journal Patrimoine de l�industrie/Industrial Patrimony. During the last months, Koinekwork is enlarging his field of competencies and actions to new social, urban and environmental problematics linked to the reuse of the industrial patrimony. Copyright�2001-2013 by Koinetwork g.e.i.e.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line55
__label__cc	0.703422	0.296578	Return to current session information Section 58 » Prev Article 29. - CARE AND TREATMENT FOR MENTALLY ILL PERSONS Next 59-2958. Ex parte emergency custody order. (a) At the time the petition for the determination of whether a person is a mentally ill person subject to involuntary commitment for care and treatment under this act is filed, or any time thereafter prior to the trial upon the petition as provided for in K.S.A. 59-2965 and amendments thereto, the petitioner may request in writing that the district court issue an ex parte emergency order including either or both of the following: (1) An order directing any law enforcement officer to take the person named in the order into custody and transport the person to a designated treatment facility or other suitable place willing to receive and detain the person; (2) an order authorizing any named treatment facility or other place to detain or continue to detain the person until the further order of the court or until the ex parte emergency custody order shall expire. (b) No ex parte emergency custody order shall provide for the detention of any person at a state psychiatric hospital unless a written statement from a qualified mental health professional authorizing such admission and detention at a state psychiatric hospital has been filed with the court. (c) No ex parte emergency custody order shall provide for the detention of any person in a nonmedical facility used for the detention of persons charged with or convicted of a crime. (d) If no other suitable facility at which such person may be detained is willing to accept the person, then the participating mental health center for that area shall provide a suitable place to detain the person until the further order of the court or until the ex parte emergency custody order shall expire. (e) An ex parte emergency custody order issued under this section shall expire at 5:00 p.m. of the second day the district court is open for the transaction of business after the date of its issuance, which expiration date shall be stated in the order. (f) The district court shall not issue successive ex parte emergency custody orders. (g) In lieu of issuing an ex parte emergency custody order, the court may allow the person with respect to whom the request was made to remain at liberty, subject to such conditions as the court may impose. History: L. 1996, ch. 167, § 14; L. 1997, ch. 152, § 6; L. 1998, ch. 134, § 44; July 1.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line56
__label__wiki	0.99008	0.99008	Madrid Journals Marc Balakjian obituary :-: the Guardian Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh receive Covid-19 vaccine Dozens killed in suspected jihadist attack in Niger Niger votes in presidential and legislative elections Brexit: EU, UK finally clinch ‘historic’ trade deal Singapore oil tanker hit by explosion caused by ‘external source’ off Saudi Arabia Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša congratulates Donald Trump despite no election result Lessons for Africa from devastating Mauritius oil spill More than 100 children killed and injured as violence intensifies in Ituri, DRC – Save the Children Creepy technologies invade European post-pandemic workplaces GCO responds to Amnesty report on non-payment of salaries by stadium contractor Covid: Brisbane to enter three-day lockdown over single infection Australia v India: Five touring players in isolation after restaurant visit Covid: Sydney announces new restrictions ahead of New Year Australian expeditioner evacuated from Antarctica in five-day mission Covid: Australian states enforce travel bans amid Sydney outbreak Bosnia: Icy struggle for many migrants stuck in freezing tents Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands UK regulator approves Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine Pope urges coronavirus vaccine access for all Covid: Flights shut down as EU discusses UK virus threat Coronavirus cases in Spain officially top two million The year that Spain had to leave the hugs behind Health Ministry reports 14,000 new coronavirus infections, adds 320 victims to overall death toll As Covid vaccine program gets started in Spain, what happens next? Spain ‘to register’ those who refuse to have Covid-19 vaccine Mynor Padilla: Killer of anti-mining activist pleads guilty Deepening divisions: Venezuela’s haves and have nots Argentina abortion: Senate approves legalisation in historic decision Félix Vásquez: Honduran environmental activist killed Covid: Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica begin mass vaccination Storm Filomena: Spain sees ‘exceptional’ snowfall Spain, UK reach ‘preliminary agreement’ that will see an end to the border with Gibraltar The Spanish prime minister’s migration journey Christmas in Spain: All the latest coronavirus restrictions, region by region Brexit clock ‘still ticking over Gibraltar’, warns British enclave’s leader Giants knock out Cowboys to stay alive in NFC East as questionable decisions doom Dallas Wisconsin drops trophy after beating Wake Forest in Duke May’s Bowl Manchester City’s ‘compromised’ Covid-19 security bubble forces postponement of game at Everton The challenges COVID-19 poses for youth sports Blink and you’ll miss it — Rafael Leao scores fastest goal in Serie A history Google suspends ‘free speech’ app Parler 20 years of tech with Jeff: From green iMacs and DVDs to the iPhone era Are you willing to pay for email? How about podcasts? Here are our tech predictions for 2021 If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport Nuro set to be California’s first driverless delivery service Award-winning artist and printmaker who resurrected the obscure medium of mezzotint, once popular fo.. Award-winning artist and printmaker who resurrected the obscure medium of mezzotint, once popular for reproducing Constables and Turners Two months before his death at the age of 79, the artist Marc Balakjian visited Armenia for the first time to discover his cultural inheritance. His parents had fled to Lebanon from the genocide of Armenia, started by the Turks in 1915. The Armenian diaspora has lived with a sense of unfinished business and injustice ever since, and this history influenced Marc’s work. He usually used a restricted palette of black and white, whether in small mezzotints or larger drawings and watercolours. His subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars in the background or piles of planks leaning against each other. The images are disturbing in their ambiguity. Continue reading…Original Article Museum of miners’ art to open as part of Bishop Auckland culture drive :-: the Guardian Anish Kapoor’s ‘queen’s vagina’ sculpture vandalised again – video :-: the Guardian Michael Apted: TV documentary pioneer and film-maker dies aged 79 Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79. He also directed Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. The original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life. The show was inspired by the Aristotle quote “give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man”. The first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers – and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019. Throughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Nick who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey. Apted’s shows – which won three Bafta awards – have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen. But unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter. In 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries. ‘Remarkable’ career Thomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a “fearless visionary” whose legacy would live on. He said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, “saw the trajectory of things when others didn’t and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication”. ITV’s managing director Kevin Lygo said the director’s six-decade career was “in itself truly remarkable”. He said the Up series “demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition”. “The influence of Michael’s contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,” Lygo added. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted “was a director of enormous talent” and “beloved by all those who worked with him”. “We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,” they said. A post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a “delightful, charming soul”. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.View original tweet on Twitter Composer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt “lucky” to work with him. “A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you’d never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he’s gone,” Arnold wrote on Twitter. Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55597263 Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You’ll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78. His family said on Sunday he died after a short illness not linked to Covid-19. Marsden’s band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart. But the band’s other best known hit was Ferry Cross The Mersey came in 1964. It was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight. Marsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster. At the time, he said he was “over the moon” to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond. Liverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden’s words would “live on forever with us”. While Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, that he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single. In many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool’s Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature. That turned out to be the film Carousel – which featured that song on its soundtrack – and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band’s repertoire. In a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You’ll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club’s fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: “I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You’ll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it. “When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting ‘Where’s our song?’ So they had to put it back on. “Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.” Sir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was “saddened” by the news of Marsden’s death, and that You’ll Never Walk Alone was an “integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now”. By BBC Radio Merseyside’s Spencer Leigh Gerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like. He had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads. I think he really did them very well indeed. You’ll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it. Just before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don’t think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn’t sing along with Johnny Mathis – he had too big a range and too perfect a voice. But Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it’s the greatest football anthem of the lot. As well as being a Liverpool anthem, You’ll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany. Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was “devastated” by the news. Marsden’s career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times. The club said on Twitter that Marsden was “not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern”. Gerry and The Pacemakers were spotted by Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who gave them the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by the Fab Four and Adam Faith, for their debut single. The band achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up. Marsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour. In 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match. In doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song. So when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life. Marsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene. Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ dies of Covid-19 complications at 82 Lisa France byline Dawn Wells, who played the lovable castaway Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan’s Island,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19 complications, her publicist Harlan Boll confirmed to CNN. She was 82. Tina Louise portrayed movie star Ginger Grant on “Gilligan’s Island” and said in a statement to CNN, “I was sad to learn of Dawn’s passing, I will always remember her kindness to me. “We shared in creating a cultural landmark that has continued to bring comfort and smiles to people during this difficult time,” the statement read. “I hope that people will remember her the way that I do — always with a smile on her face.” Born in Reno, Nevada, Wells represented her home state in the Miss America pageant in 1959. That opened the door for her to start a career in Hollywood where she appeared in a multitude of television shows, including “77 Sunset Strip,” “Maverick,” “Bonanza,” “The Joey Bishop Show” and “Hawaiian Eye.” She beat out 350 other actresses to nab the role of girl-next-door Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” which aired on CBS from 1964 to 1967 and later in syndication. In a 2016 interview with Forbes magazine, Wells revealed that the job was not as lucrative as many people believed. “A misconception is that we must be wealthy, rolling in the dough, because we got residuals. We didn’t really get a dime,” she said. “I think my salary — of course, I was low on the totem pole, Ginger (Tina Louise) and Thurston (Jim Backus) got more — was $750 a week. Sherwood Schwartz, our producer, reportedly made $90 million on the reruns alone!” She starred in more than 150 TV shows, seven motion pictures including “Winterhawk” (which she also narrated) and more than 60 productions on and off Broadway. Beyond acting, Wells also served as a producer, author, journalist, motivational speaker, teacher, humanitarian, spokesperson and chairwoman of the Terry Lee Wells Foundation, an organization for women and children in northern Nevada, as well as running her Film Actors Boot Camp for seven years in Idaho. She received the Elephant Sanctuary Trumpeting Award for her activism in supporting The Elephant Sanctuary. The sanctuary, founded in 1995, is the nation’s largest natural habitat refuge developed specifically for African and Asian elephants. But it was her pigtail-wearing character on “Gilligan’s Island” which made her a beloved star — and she had fun with it. Wells acted as the “castaway correspondent” for Channel 9 in Sydney, Australia, where she interviewed actors and directors including Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Julia Roberts, Rene Russo, Mel Gibson, Ron Howard, and Richard Donner. At the premiere of the film “Gravity,” she presented star Sandra Bullock with a coconut cream pie, in honor of their shared experience with being “stranded.” “Gilligan’s Island” was an unexpected hit and in honor of the 50th anniversary of the series, Wells released “A Guide To Life: What Would Mary Ann Do?” in which she wrote about the meaning of the Mary Ann character and observed the cultural shifts that have happened since she was on the island. Her gingham dress and famous short shorts from “Gilligan’s Island” are currently on display in the lobby of The Hollywood Museum. She is survived by her stepsister, Weslee Wells. No services have been scheduled at this time and in lieu of flowers, donations are requested to either The Elephant Sanctuary, Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum or The Shambala Preserve. 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__label__wiki	0.736161	0.736161	Tim Draper and Robolution Capital Lead Seed Round Investment in Neurala Bymaxversace Robotics Company To Take Deep Learning Intelligence Software Designed For Mars And Bring It Down To Earth Neurala, Inc., which builds software that makes robots smarter so that people can tell a robot what to do instead of how to do it, announced today that it had closed a seed investment round of $750,000. The round was led by the fund run by well-known venture capitalist Tim Draper, Draper Associates Investments, LLC, and by Robolution Capital, the Paris-based venture capital fund dedicated to service robotics. A pioneer in deep learning technologies that mimic the functions of the human brain, Neurala was named one of the 50 most influential robotics companies in 2014 by Robotics Business Review. The company holds a fundamental patent for the use of deep learning algorithms, often called Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), running on graphic processing units (GPUs), which were originally designed for computer games and 3D graphics. The invention is seen as an important foundation for real-time artificial intelligence and is the basis for many deep learning technologies used today. (U.S. Patent 8,648,867) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Air Force Research Labs (USAFRL) have both contracted with Neurala to develop deep learning controllers that emulate brain functions. Uses range from autonomous exploration of Mars-like environments, to more Earthly use, such as collision avoidance for unmanned aircraft and persistent surveillance. “With the new investment, Neurala will be able to make robots something that everyone will find useful in everyday life,” said Massamiliano Versace, CEO and co-founder of Neurala. “We plan to develop practical commercial applications for both flying robots and gound-based robots that utilize our deep learning software.” Robolution Capital, the first venture capital fund exclusively dedicated to the growing service robotics market, will add its deep experience in robotics as well as its knowledge regarding expansion into the European market. “Neurala will be one of the companies leading movement towards the next generation of robotics, in which robots will be able to act, adapt autonomously and interact with people. We look forward to working with them to build a global brand by providing the most advanced technology,” said Bruno Bonnell, a partner at Robolution Capital. In addition to Draper Associates Investments, LLC, and Robolution Capital, investors in Neurala include SK Ventures, TechStars and other angel investors. Neurala Named As One of the 50 Most Influential Companies in the Global Robotics Industry By Robotics Business Review Neurala Receives $250,000 NASA Grant To Bring Autonomous Software To Self-Driving Cars, Home Robots and Drones By maxversace Oct 20, 2020 maxversace	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line61
__label__wiki	0.677893	0.677893	Shawn McDonald You're here » Song Lyrics Index » M » Shawn McDonald Shawn McDonald Lyrics Genre: Pop/Folk/Acoustic Shawn McDonald Bibliography: (click on each album cover to view tracks and Shawn McDonald lyrics) Focal Point (2002) Simply Nothing (2004) Live in Seattle (2005) Ripen (2006) Scattered Pieces - live (2007) Shawn McDonald Biography Six years could be a lifetime if you're Sparrow Recording artist Shawn McDonald. Six years ago he hadn't recorded his genre-bending soulish-folk debut, Simply Nothing. He hadn't had labels like Columbia and Java Records knocking at his door. In fact, six years ago, Shawn McDonald didn't even play a lick of guitar. He had never taken the stage in a club or a coffee house. He had yet to write his first song. Truth is, six years ago Shawn McDonald was just a desperate, lost kid in Eugene, Oregon, who grew up too quickly without his parents in his life, and who was now full of rage, and staring down the barrel of nine felony charges for possessing, growing, manufacturing and dealing marijuana, LSD, crank and a host of other controlled substances. Not that you'd ever guess. "I can't communicate how crazy I was," Shawn says. "Who I was then and who I am now is like night and day. You name the drug and I was selling it and doing it. I was a confused kid, and my confusion boiled up into bitterness and anger. My life had become a hard, closed shell. I was extremely rebellious, miserable, and lost. What God has done in my life in the last six years is amazing." Shawn was once notorious for the trouble he caused. He was the kind of kid most people had written off as hopeless. Nowadays he's recognized instead for his ingratiating and disarming transparency and for his sparse, eloquent, laid-back musical stylings. Shawn's story is a moving testimony of abandonment, despair, hope and redemption. His songs are a sophisticated blend of organic instrumentation, such as nylon guitar, cello, violin, and harp, mixed with hip-hop sensibilities and a passionate flowing lyric. Expressing his insatiable hunger and thirst for God, the lyrics on his major label debut, Simply Nothing, reveal a personal maturity of belief that prefers a hard truth over a feel-good lie. Shawn consistently refuses the easy way out in life, art, or theology. Instead, hope, redemption and worship are discovered in the context of real searching, struggling, questioning, and pain. "Honesty is huge," Shawn explains. "That's what I think people connect with in my concerts. I get up there and I talk about my life and my struggles and my experiences, good and bad. I sing and talk about it all. I talk about the grime of life. I can't understand a version of Christianity that would deny all that. How can we have a true picture of what grace is if we don't admit our own sin and brokenness?" Produced by Chris Stevens (TobyMac, Paul Wright, Cadet), Simply Nothing has the subtle feel of a music veteran's seventh record, rather than a 26 year-old's first. Simplicity and mood are used skillfully to weave the twelve cuts into one seamless outpouring of the heart. "Beautiful," a lyric inspired by Brennan Manning's book Ragamuffin Gospel, creates a portrait of grace by showing the distance between God's glory and man's unworthiness. "Here I Am," often used as a concert opener, is Shawn's personal expression of worship and surrender. "Gravity," the project's first single, is a prayer for God's strength to be made perfect in weakness. A Sting-like blend of folk and acoustic soul, the song yearns for a deeper experience of divine relationship. "The theme that comes across the most in this project is my need of God," Shawn says. "The older I get the more I'm realizing how imperfect I am and how much I fall short. My songs just continually come back to this deep need of something more, which is God. I can't get away from the fact that we need more than ourselves." The turning point in Shawn's own life came after his second bust on drug-related charges. With nine felony counts hanging over his head, he knew that life was crashing down around him. He tried in vain to find spiritual answers in Rastafarianism, Hinduism, and meditation. At the lowest point of his life, Shawn finally offered up a desperate prayer: "God, I don't know who You are or where You are, but I need to find You. Whoever You are, show Yourself to me. Show me a sign." Pulling out an old Bible, Shawn stuck his finger in and began reading. As he read a passage from Matthew, he sensed that God was warning him to clean the drugs out of his life, and that the police could be coming back. Shawn immediately got rid of everything. One day later the police arrived with a search warrant. Shawn was convinced that God had indeed spoken to him. In thanks, he began to worship, and as he did so, Shawn had a personal encounter with the Spirit of God that permanently changed the direction of his heart and life. "I did a 180 and started running in the other direction," Shawn remembers. "For the next three years my hunger for God was out of control. I couldn't get enough. I spent most of my time studying the Bible and reading every book about God I could get my hands on. In the midst of all that I started writing my own worship songs. People around me encouraged me, I started getting invitations to play different places, and it just grew from there. Music wasn't something I ever dreamed of doing. But it was the plan God had for me." Perhaps it's Shawn's obvious lack of star struck pretensions that makes listeners so immediately comfortable during his live shows. Rather than viewing his concerts as performances, Shawn casts them in the context of relationship. "When I share my songs and say things live," he says, "I see it as a conversation that just happens to be taking place on a stage. You can't plan a conversation, it just happens. There's give and take on both sides. I don't have a song list or a set of things I say every night. Each show is different. I play and say whatever comes into my head. I want it to be an experience, not a performance." The live experience Shawn facilitates has shown a surprising resonance with Believers and unbelievers alike. Despite the overt presence of worship and testimony in his concerts, the bulk of Shawn's current audience is still a crowd who wouldn't identify themselves as followers of Christ. "I always tell my testimony," Shawn explains. "I just put it out there. The crazy thing I've found is that if you're willing to be really real and honest, people are willing to listen. So I can tell them about the drug lifestyle I came from and I can tell them about my redemption in Christ. The world can relate to me because I can relate to them. I've been there and done that. The church relates to me too, because I've met the God they're serving and my life has been changed by Him. Paul said, 'to the Jew I become a Jew and to the Gentile I become a Gentile.' I think he was saying that he sought out ways to connect on a real level with people in different cultural contexts. I want to be like that. I want to listen to people so I can know where they're coming from. I want to learn how to communicate in a way that connects with people, moves them, and changes them. As a project, I hope Simply Nothing does that."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line63
__label__cc	0.640073	0.359927	LIFT: Fitness Culture NewFrontier 10 Posts Back Home Is exercise addictive? Exercise September 2, 2016 Here is a thoughtful and worthy essay, from Nautilus, about exercise addiction. The topic certainly deserves attention. However, as a skeptic of lumping strong habits under the rubric of addiction, I was not convinced by this author that the phenomenon is accurately described by the term (as opposed to compulsion, another term brought up here). She acknowledges that no agreed-upon definition of exercise addiction exists but pushes on without trying to convince us that people who work out too much are in fact addicts. Are people who study too much addicts? Who worry too much? Who are neat freaks? Is the definition of addiction simply overdoing it? Still, making the connection between eating disorders and exercise addiction seems to me astute and cries out for of more study. Political Bodies in Egypt Fitness History August 24, 2016 An especially interesting article in The New York Times today reports that in Egypt, among the young who swarmed the streets some five years ago during the Arab Spring, “a fitness craze has taken hold.” A really excellent turn of events for a country that ranks as the 17th most obese in the world. However, the really fascinating part are the causes that the writer, Rod Nordland, adduces for this new exercise movement. Some see it as Egypt merely catching up with increasing worldwide enthusiasm for fitness, which is to say it’s an inward turn, a “withering of the political revolution under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.” Other comments—that, for instance, the revolution gave people permission to occupy public space in a new way–suggest that it represents a transformation of political energy, one that retains its connection to politics. I’m betting on the latter. As I note in LIFT, fitness has… The Brain in the Body Performance August 22, 2016 When talking about athletes, it is common to praise their short memories: a great quarterback, for example, will instantly forget an interception so he can go right back out and throw a touchdown pass. We know why this is important in sport, but we don’t know why physiologically this is important. However, Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh have reported finding the neural networks that connect the brain directly to the adrenal medulla, which is near the kidneys and is responsible for “the body’s rapid response in stressful situations.” The study showed that the areas of the cerebral cortex “that are active when we sense conflict, or are aware that we have made an error, are a source of influence over the adrenal medulla. ‘This observation,’ said Dr. Strick, ‘raises the possibility that activity in these cortical areas when you re-imagine an error, or beat yourself up over a mistake,… Art and Fitness II Pictures of people doing handstands in exotic locations, usually while on vacation, have become a mainstay of the fitness world in the New Frontier. I’ve been guilty of a few. Here I am on the Parthenon, for instance: One can make the argument that this particular strand of selfie culture has its origin, or at least an early exemplar, in Conceptual Art, Robert Kinmont’s 8 Natural Handstands (1969). Depictions of people engaged in fitness activities and sport are among the very oldest in art. Here, unlike those first images, there is almost no emphasis on the physique; rather it’s on the performance itself, which in this case feels like something of a party trick—and that’s probably why there’s a whiff of narcissism about it. That sense of showing off is only strengthened by the fact that it’s a self-portrait, one executed in a notably heroic setting, balanced on a rock… Too much exercise? Aging August 11, 2016 A new study reports that, despite changing the structure of the heart, “chronic right ventricular damage in elite endurance master athletes with lifelong high training volumes seems to be unlikely,” as reported in The New York Times. Interesting, since A-fib has seemed to have a markedly higher incidence among endurance athletes training at high volume. In fact, I know of at least one lifelong endurance athlete, a widely respected physician and longevity researcher, who switched to strength training specifically because his concerns over A-fib. Ignorance Speaks Crossfit August 10, 2016 Australian Tia Clair Toomey is truly extraordinary athlete. For the second year in a row she was named the Second Fittest Woman on the planet, by her placement in the Crossfit Games, a grueling five-day, 17-event test across numerous fitness domains. Then, a couple of weeks after this competition, she represented Australia at the Olympics in the weightlifting competition. How enviable is her achievement? So much so that some wanker at The Sydney Morning Herald, in a fog of foolishness, ripped into Toomey for being “only the 14th strongest” woman in the 58kg class. Consider that when America’s Morghan King placed sixth out of twelve competing in the 48kg class, it was roundly considered a triumph. Yet King–a fantastic athlete–trains only for weightlifting; she does Itwo lifts: the snatch and the clean-and-jerk. To be a Crossfit athlete, Toomey trains an insane array of movements and modalities, from track and field… New LIFT excerpt Fitness History July 13, 2016 I am really honored to have an expanded excerpt from Lift published on The Paris Review Daily. I spent most of my twenties working at what was then just a literary magazine, first as an intern and eventually as the managing editor. During that time, George Plimpton, whom I miss dearly, was my mentor and friend, and so I’m especially pleased to be able to write a bit about him on a blog I read every day. More weight-loss madness Exercise June 30, 2016 I wasn’t going to post this week because I have some other things I need to attend to, but then this bit of empty clickbait popped up, a Vox article claiming “The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight”. This is yet another example of people making money by misleading the public on the subject of weight loss. To say that exercise won’t help you lose much weight is like saying that guns don’t kill people, people kill people: there’s just enough fact (as opposed to truth) to dupe the public into buying a falsehood. So let’s look—very quickly–at some of the assumptions this article makes and why they are incorrect, and ultimately destructive. First and most important: Why are we talking about weight at all? Without context–meaning a broader set of data points—it is a meaningless abstraction. If you tell me you’re a woman who weighs… The Butt Test Butts and thighs are busting out everywhere: the evidence is all around us, so I’m sure you don’t have to be told. In Lift I argue that the recent emphasis on performance in working out “is slowly, though perceptibly, altering the very culture of the body.” One example is the changing status of the butt, which, over the last four years, has given rise to the Butt Test, a semi-serious test of booty size popular among strength practitioners and Crossfitters. To take it, you simply lie face down on the ground and then you try to roll a barbell loaded with standard bumper plates (or 45 lbs. iron plates) over your body from head to toe. If your glutes stop the bar, you pass the butt test; if they don’t, you need to do more squats and deadlifts. The test arose in response to what had been an aesthetic orthodoxy… On tech Just read Edward Mendelson’s excellent NYRB essay, “In the Depths of the Digital Age,” in which he cites Bernard Harcourt: “In place of the medieval idea of the king’s two bodies—the king’s royal powers derived from heaven and his natural self—Harcourt proposes the two bodies of ‘the liberal democratic citizen…: the now permanent digital self, which we are etching into the virtual cloud with every click and tap, and our mortal analog selves, which seem by contrast to be fading like the color on a Polaroid instant photo.’ ” It would be interesting to consider and discuss the burgeoning of today’s physical practices, and the new asceticisms they have engendered, as a response to our increasingly robust digital selves. This would not be a new phenomenon: various fitness practices, from gymnastics to sport, arose in the early 19th century in response to the technologies of the Industrial Revolution and to… Blog Topics Select Category Aging art Competition Crossfit endurance Exercise Fitness History Gymnastics Nutrition Performance Physical Culture Politics Recovery Strongman Training Weight Loss Weightlifting About Daniel Kunitz Daniel Kunitz writes on fitness, art, literature, design, and culture. Lift: Fitness Culture from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors, published by HarperWave “An elegant book with literary qualities that suggest George Plimpton. An excellent contribution to the literature of athletic performance and of interest to anyone with a penchant for self-improvement—and not just physical.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Available July 2016 © 2016 Daniel Kunitz	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line70
__label__wiki	0.623587	0.623587	What Happens in Shakespeare's King Lear What Happens in Shakespeare's Macbeth PKD Otaku Author Inteviews Shakespeare's Authorship Review of Macbeth (Film 2018) Review of Macbeth (Film) 2018. Dir. Kit Monkman I saw this at a one-off showing on 13 March at the Liverpool Showcase Cinema. I was one of only seven people in the audience, which was a shame because the film had much to commend it. Firstly it did live up to it's promise as 'an innovative rethinking of what it means to put Shakespeare on film' (a boast from its website here) This production maintains its roots in the theatre - indeed the artifice of theatre is celebrated and played with throughout. We are given a sense that we are observing the actions and consequences of people from a supernatural vantage point. Review of King Lear (Dir. Greg Doran, starring Antony Sher) RSC September 2016 What could be better for lovers of King Lear than to see it performed in Stratford-upon-Avon with Antony Sher in the lead role? I'd seen Sher as Richard III, Macbeth and Falstaff (Henry IV parts one and two) and he was excellent in all of them. Sadly he wasn't as good in the role of Lear - indeed the whole production was flawed. Please understand that I went with good intent and I so want to support the theatre - but it just wasn't good enough. I don't go to the theatre looking for flaws, I go to be caught up with the unique magic, which is Theatre. It can be life-changing, full of wonder, an education, an emotional experience, a magical journey. Sadly, this was none of the above. (spoiler alert) To discuss the play, I have to, well, discuss the play - so here goes... Review of Glenda Jackson’s King Lear The Old Vic, London (25 Oct-3 Dec 2016) Glenda Jackson is not only an actress with some calibre, but also a Labour MP who has spoken out against the gross inequalities in UK society. She articulates well and has a big heart. Since King Lear is a play with much to say about social justice, inequality and corruption, I thought that Glenda Jackson would be ideally placed to convey the text in such a way that it lives and breathes. I so wanted this to be good. I had no problem with Lear being played by a woman – and neither would Shakespeare. The opening scene hinges on Lear’s reactions to each of his three daughter’s responses (to his demands for flattery). Consequently I thought it odd that for much of the scene Glenda was sat centre stage with her back to the audience. This seriously hindered her expression and made some lines less audible. Copyright © 2020 Nick Buchanan. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line73
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__label__cc	0.591064	0.408936	Shahid Kapoor denied permission to stay at Gwalior airbase By Subhash K. Jha, February 17, 2011 The over-hyped news reports about the F-16 that Shahid flew as part of his role as an air force pilot was just much ado about nothing meant to camouflage the real story about Shahid's air force training for his role in Pankaj Kapoor's Mausam. The shooting started from Wednesday at the Gwalior airbase. Every attempt was made to keep the venue and the dynamics of Shahid's air force activities a secret. Says a source, "Permission to shoot at the Gwalior airbase has been secured after clearance from the highest levels in the Capital on condition that there would be no disturbance or disruption in the airbase routine of any sort whatsoever." To ensure that the Mausam crew's presence in Gwalior was not revealed to the people of Gwalior, the entire crew has been instructed to stay at the airbase. This is where the problem crept in. Plans to house Shahid within the airbase had to be aborted after being defined as a "security hazard". Says a source, "On a trial visit to the Gwalior base, it was discovered that the cadets at the airbase could not focus on their duties with Shahid in their midst. He has therefore been instructed to seek accommodation in a hotel while the rest of the crew will stay at the airbase." Producer Sheetal Talwar refuses to divulge any details on the whereabouts of the airbase shooting. "All I can tell you is, we are now shooting all the scenes of Shahid's as an air force pilot in the next one week." These sequences form a vital part of the narrative. Director Pankaj Kapoor has worked out all the details of the airbase shooting to avoid even the smallest delay or glitch. But concealing Shahid's presence in Gwalior is expected to be a problem. News BH Posted by Mahendra at 11:11 PM 0 comments Shahid Kapoor denied permission to stay at Gwalior...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line89
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The scientific deployment made. The three regions have outstanding research and development and transformation capabilities, and have a number of universities, research institutes, high-tech enterprises and national science projects with important influences in the country and the world. The innovative elements are attractive and have good construction of international science and technology innovation centers. basis. At the same time, we must also see that a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are poised for development. The three places need to be strengthened in promoting the efficient and convenient flow of production factors and improving the regional collaborative innovation system. It is necessary to focus on the strategic positioning of building a globally influential international science and technology innovation center, aiming at the forefront of world science and technology and industrial development, vigorously developing new technologies, new industries, new formats, new models, and accelerating the formation of innovation as the main leader and support. Economic system and development model. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao each have their own strengths in research, industry, talent and docking global resources. To build a globally influential international science and technology innovation center, we must focus on building an open regional collaborative innovation community. The planning outline will make concrete arrangements for strengthening cooperation in science and technology innovation, building basic capacity for innovation, and deep integration of production, education and research, emphasizing the need to promote the integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the national innovation system and play a more important role; and building a regional innovation system with openness and rationality; Promote the construction of the “Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau” science and technology innovation corridor; accelerate the construction of national independent innovation demonstration zones and national dual-creation demonstration bases and space creation; encourage Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao enterprises and scientific research institutions to participate in international scientific and technological innovation cooperation; support Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao participation National science and technology plans, deepening the reform of innovation system and mechanism, and establishing an alliance of industry, university and research innovation. To implement the planning outline, Guangdong must seize opportunities and positive actions, deepen cooperation, strengthen regional coordination, and jointly stimulate the vitality of various innovation entities. High-level scientific and technological innovation carriers and platforms are important support for enhancing scientific and technological innovation capabilities. To build a globally influential international science and technology innovation center, we must accelerate the construction of major science and technology infrastructure, cross-research platforms and frontier disciplines in Dawan District, and strive to improve the level of basic research. The planning outline clearly promotes the construction of national independent innovation demonstration zones, promotes the integration of military and civilian development in the nine cities of the Pearl River Delta, supports the construction of major innovation carriers, research and development centers, and technology industry development platforms that combine the characteristics and realities of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and promotes the national priorities of Hong Kong and Macao. Laboratory partner laboratory construction. Guangdong has two national independent innovation demonstration zones and has a deep cooperation foundation with Hong Kong and Macao. In recent years, Guangdong has introduced a series of policy initiatives and work arrangements around promoting the construction of “created zones” and strengthening basic research and applied basic research. It is necessary to join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to strengthen basic research and applied basic research and strengthen major technological infrastructure and Innovative platform construction to seize the commanding heights of technological innovation. Implementing the innovation-driven development strategy is a systematic project. The most urgent is to accelerate the pace of technological system reform, optimize the regional innovation environment, remove the bottlenecks and constraints that affect the free flow of innovation elements, and further stimulate the vitality of various innovation entities. According to the plan outline, we must promote the comprehensive innovation reform experiment, deepen the reform of regional innovation system and mechanism, study and implement more convenient policies and measures, encourage exchanges between science and technology and academic talents, promote cooperation on major scientific research projects, and innovate mechanisms and improve the environment. The Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan District will be built into an internationally competitive base for scientific and technological achievements, and will carry out in-depth cooperation in the areas of entrepreneurial incubation, technology finance, transformation of results, international technology transfer, and science and technology services, and will be advanced for Hong Kong and Macao universities and research institutions. The transfer of technological achievements will provide convenient conditions for cooperation in building a diversified, international and cross-regional technology innovation investment and financing system; it is necessary to strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights, and strengthen the Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Dawan District in the fields of intellectual property protection and professional personnel training. Cooperation. Innovation wins the future. All departments in all regions of the province must conscientiously implement the important concept of "innovation is the first impetus" put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and profoundly understand the far-reaching strategic significance of building a "global international innovation center with global influence", and persist in innovation-driven and reform-led. The construction of the International Science and Technology Innovation Center and the construction of a strong province of science and technology innovation will be closely integrated to promote the optimization of the collaborative innovation environment in the three places, accelerate the gathering of innovative factors, and significantly enhance the ability of emerging technologies and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and become China‘s economic innovation and competitiveness. Continuous enhancement provides strong support. Previous：Strive to be the creative and creative capital of the world‘s influence 2018/08/08 Next：Promote the cultural integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau 2018/03/30	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line93
__label__cc	0.737992	0.262008	Theogenesis rating: +51+–x The image came to me as I slept. In my dream, I stood at the center of a tall hill, and though it was day I could see all the stars of the night sky. More, in fact. They were strewn across the atmosphere, clumped together so tightly that in many places you couldn't see anything else. Instead of white, they shone dark red. A voice came from behind me, and I turned. Standing there was a man. He wore a brown, ratty cloak, that obscured his face and body in shadow, so that all I could see were his hands. They were withered, grey things with fingernails that looked like a predator's teeth. He said something again that I couldn't understand. I asked him to repeat himself. He spoke again, and the voice seemed to come from all around me. you will find yourself, it said. when you do, you will fall. the fall will be the first of many, and when it is finally over, you will lose yourself again, among the dreams of stars. I asked him what he meant, but he did not reply. The red light around us began to grow brighter. Looking up, I saw the stars were expanding. Their edges crept out slowly, pressing against each other and meshing together, forming one great mass that stretched across the entire sky. I looked back at the man, but he was gone, and I could hear only a slow, humming crescendo. When I woke, my first instinct was to write. To this day I cannot say why, but I flung myself from the bed and scrambled to my work desk. Three years work of design and planning for the chapel were tossed aside. In their place, I took a stack of paper and pen, and began to write. A week later, I emerged from my home with the first and final draft of what would be published as Seventeen Red Tales. Though many people have asked me what inspired me to write the work, until now I have not relayed this story to anyone, not even those who helped publish it. There have been two reasons for this: The first, because I barely believed or remembered it myself. The second, because of what happened after the book was released. It was a little over a month later. I was still astonished by the immediate popularity of the stories, and trying to adjust to my new life in the spotlight. After a particularly grueling interview, I returned home expecting to pour myself a drink and retreat to bed. Instead, I found two women and a man standing in my study. The man had a book. The women had knives. “You're coming with us,” said the shorter, blonde-haired woman. The knife hung by her side in a most non-threatening manner. I looked from it, to her, to the other woman, to the man, to the knife, and decided it would be best to listen. A bag was thrown over my head, and I was pulled outside by rough hands. From there, I was tossed into a carriage. We bumped along through winding roads for what felt like many hours, before I was pulled back outside. The bag was torn from my head. We were in a small back alley, in a part of town I couldn't recognize. The three figures stood in front of me. “Show it to him,” said the taller, brown-haired woman. “Show it to him!” The man thrust the open book into my arms, and I realized it was Seventeen Red Tales. It was turned to the sixth tale, A Hidden Path, at the moment when Samuel reject's The Liar's third offer, though it took me a moment to realize this. The margins had been almost blacked out by notations and drawings, in a script so cramped I couldn't distinguish the words. Their writing filled every inch of white space. Only by looking closely could I recognize the printed words around it. “What does it mean?” said the man. He stared at me with wide eyes. “I… I don't know,” I said. “What are you trying to show me?” The man snarled and ripped the book from my hands. “You know what it means!” He flipped to another page and thrust it back into my hands. This time, it was the second tale, A Counsel of Strangers. Every line of text had been crossed out, with the word “Hunger” repeated running across the top. “Who did this?” I asked. Turning the pages, I saw each had been defaced in a unique way. “You bought the book like this?” “I did it!” said the blonde woman. She stepped forward. “But what does it mean?” “That's-” I began to say, but her knife at my throat stopped me. “I can't read,” she said. She jabbed a finger at the page. “Read it to me.” “You can't… how is that-” “Read it!” she yelled. “From the beginning.” My hands shaking, I turned to the beginning of the book. What did she want me to read, the story or the notations? I cleared my throat and began to read from the margins. “Thirty times on thirty lands, thirty dead by thirty hands, dirty truth, dirty man, crawling roots, creeping sand-” “He's not doing it right. He doesn't know,” said the tall woman. “How can you tell?” said the man. “Listen to him. He doesn't understand.” Her voice was calm, but there was menace backing it. She, more than the other two, was dangerous. The blonde woman drew the knife back. She stared into my eyes, clicking her teeth together. “I don't think so either. I think he's a liar.” “He's not a liar. He's just an idiot,” said the tall woman. She shook her head. “There's no point in staying. We should leave.” “We can't leave when he hasn't told us anything,” said the man. “Shut up,” said the tall woman. “He can't tell us anything, because he doesn't know anything. Now let's go.” The man scowled, but backed off. The blonde woman made a small tsk-ing noise, and shoved the knife into the folds of her clothing. Together, they exited the alley, leaving me thanking God for my life. The next three months were uneventful. I pushed the night's incident from my mind, and attempted to focus on writing a second book. In this, I was unsuccessful. Until the dream I had felt little inclination to be a writer. Architecture had always been my calling, but now there was little hope of following it. Constantly I was being questioned by my publisher about when he might see the next book. A deluge of letters flooded my home, from fans, from enemies, from other authors. Everytime I went out, people swarmed like locusts, chewing through me with questions. It was after escaping some such people that I found the letter. I had fled to my room, hoping to get some peace, when I saw it under the mail slot. This struck me as curious, as I had arranged to have all my mail forwarded to a different address, as the volume had become too much to keep at home. It had no return address, only my name scrawled on the front in jagged letters. I set it in the trashcan and tried to forget about it. After several hours, my curiosity got the best of me. Inside was a single sheet of paper, written on a script so small I had to squint to read it. Dear sir, it began, I have recently purchased a copy of your recent book, Seventeen Red Tales, based on the recommendation of a friend. I'm sure you will be pleased to know that I read it and enjoyed it immensely. That is not what I am writing about. I have sent this letter (and dropped it off personally to ensure you see it) because of several experiences I believe are linked to your book. Upon reading the fifth story, A Sign of Rain, I began to feel as if I was being watched. Even laying alone in my room, the sensation never left me. I found myself unable to sleep, barely able to work, ignoring my friends and family as the fear of someone observing me grew. Even locked in my room, where it could be certain I was alone, it never left. The only thing that could make it go away was reading the book. I finished it in less than a day, then started again, eager for the peace that reading offered. I neglected meals, neglected work, neglected my body, all to engross myself in its pages. And the more I did, the more I became aware of another feeling. The feeling of knowledge. It crept into my brain like a vine, growing larger each time I finished and re-started the tales. Each sentence, each word, gained new form upon each reading. The deeper meanings became apparent. The patterns upon patterns, the layers of truth running underneath the stories, the hidden paths your text laid bare. By the eighth reading, the world around me seemed completely changed. The paths had opened up to me. No longer did I feel like I was being watched. Rather, I was watching the world as it unfurled before my eyes. I could see the secrets that people kept, and lies they spun. I could see the way they tried to control their lives, and the hundred ways they failed each day. I could see the pulses of the world, the rivers of time we all flowed through, the dust of fallen planets, the roots that crawled from the stars, the sand that crept through our minds. And I knew what they were. Only we understand. The true gods are descending, and only we can see them. Will you join me with them? Will you help me sprout the seeds of the world? It was not signed. I looked for any indication of who sent it, but there was nothing. The roots that crawled from the stars, it had said. The sand that crept through our minds. Had the book my kidnappers shown me not said something similar? Were they linked? Could one of them have left me the letter? But why not take me again, if they wanted to speak? I decided to show my publisher the letter. The next time we spoke, I gave it to him, and told the story of my kidnapping. He did not seem surprised upon hearing it. In fact, he seemed relieved. “I thought I must have been insane,” he said, putting the letter down. “I've been feeling a similar sensation lately. I'm not sure quite when it started, but it must have been around when you first showed me the draft of Seventeen Red Tales.” I pondered this as I poured another spoon of sugar into my tea. “Have you heard anything else about this?” He shook his head. “No. It was such a minor thing, I didn't feel the need to mention it to anyone. If anyone else felt it, I'm sure they thought the same.” We stared at each other for a moment, then I stood and walked to the couple eating at the nearest table. “Excuse me sir, madam, but I have a question. Have either of you happened to have read Seventeen Red Tales?” They nodded. “We both have,” said the man. “Have you by any chance, and I know this is odd to ask, felt like you were being watched since reading it?” The woman blinked several times. The man's jaw fell open. “How could you know?” he said. “Well,” I said, leaning in and close and bringing my voice to a whisper, “I must confess a similar feeling. My friend over there has felt it as well.” “That's impossible,” said the woman. “I would've thought that too,” I said, “but it seems it is not.” “What could it mean?” said the man. I shrugged. “God only knows.” That night I sat in my room, thinking. I took a copy of Seventeen Red Tales from my shelf and began to flip through it. Since writing the book, I had felt none of the sensations described by my letter or associates. I had felt only one thing. Fear. A slow, creeping fear, that picked at me wherever I went. I could not identify the source or target of it, I only knew that it was there. Constantly. When I ate, when I slept. And when I held the book, it changed from unease to terror. My hands shook as I opened the first page. What did I expect to see? I do not know, but I only saw the same writing I had composed many months earlier. I turned to the next page. Again, only writing, and a small illustration I had drawn to go with it. I turned to the next page, and saw only text. And yet, my fear did not abide. I flipped through the entire story and found nothing there, nor in the next. I opened the first page of A Sign of Rain and almost dropped the book. Looking back at me was a terrible eye. It filled the page. It seemed to fill the entire room. It was every color I had ever seen in a single point, but also in an infinite number of points, all around me. It saw through me to the marrow. It saw through to the soul, and even when I hurled the book against the wall and fled the room, I could feel its gaze. Three weeks later, when I gathered the courage to enter the room and take the book, it was just as strong as when I first opened it. And when I burned the book and scattered the ashes on the wind, the gaze remained. Time is difficult for me to tell nowadays. I do not sleep much as of late, and time seems to blur together. It was three months after I burned the book, I think, that I first heard of Fifthism. It was in the daily newspaper, nestled away in the corner of the seventh page. “A man in the slums of London proclaims himself a prophet, and has gathered together much of the vagrant population,” said the article. It discussed the weekly meetings in the park, which had grown to hold hundreds of people, and the book that they had rallied around. Seventeen Red Tales. The reporter was hesitant to mention specific details about the group. I felt a sense of unease in his writing. There was much he knew that he was not telling. Many questions left unanswered. He mentioned that he had attended one of the meetings, but gave no details about what had taken place, describing it only as “an event”. It did not mention how the group was interested in Seventeen Red Tales, only that they were. A week (or maybe two) after that, a man appeared at the door, holding a copy of the book. He wanted to speak to the man who had changed his life, he said. My book had showed him what the world could be, he said. To what the world used to be. He tried to force his way inside, but I pushed him back. He claimed that he could feel a presence inside my house. The pupil of the universe was staring at him. I locked the door, and after several hours, he left. More people came, trying to get a look at me. They wanted to see the prophet. The creator. The iris. A dozen different names. When it became too much, I tried to flee my home, but it was only a few weeks before they found me again. They stopped trying to breach the doors, but that doesn't mean they left. They arrived in droves, sitting outside the house when they were barred from entry. There was no movement, no speaking. Just staring at the house, waiting. When I ran out of food, I tried to sneak out of the back. I was quickly found, but they didn't try to attack me. Instead, they stood and moved as a group to follow me. When I entered the butcher's shop, they stood outside and waited, then walked with me back home. None tried to approach or speak to me. After another week outside my house, they began to disperse. Only a few at first, but after three days all but a handful were gone. Soon, they had left as well. The day after the final watcher left, I had another dream. The feeling of being watched still kept me from sleeping most nights, but this slumber came easily. I closed my eyes, and when I opened them, I was standing under blood-red stars. In front of me was the man from before. you are beginning to understand, said the voice. “What have you done to me?” I said. i have done nothing. you came to me. you found me in the folds of the universe. this is the consequence of your act. The land around us pulsed with the cadence of the voice. “I didn't come to you! I was doing nothing when you first spoke to me. What could I have done that deserves this?” The world shifted. The hills disappeared and were replaced by ocean. The waters were jet-black, reflecting hundreds of thousands of red points. We floated several meters above as if on a floor of glass. you cannot un-see what has been glimpsed. i am a part of you now. I saw something out of the corner of my eye, but when I looked, there was nothing. you will spread me across the world. it is unavoidable. what you have seen will smother the fire of humanity. It was there. Right in the corner of my eye, a great beast pushing against the world, filling the sky. I could see its movement, but every time I tried to look directly, it vanished. “I will not,” I said. you will, said the voice. you already have. you are the third prophet, no matter what you claim. The beast in the corner of my eye surged forward, and fear surged through me. It had almost broke through, that time. It couldn't be held for much longer. I opened my mouth to speak, but before the words could form, I woke. I have tried to fight the impulse. I have felt it ever since the dream, the need to write again, the burning urge to craft another story. And I have told myself that I cannot. That I will not give in to this creature, that I will not spread its word, not do its work. I am a human being, not an animal. I will not be manipulated into this. But I cannot hold out any longer. I am weak, and the need is too strong. Writing this will be my last act. I have tried to prevent the word from slipping through, but I cannot be certain. I hope only that whoever discovers this will have a better understanding than I did. Perhaps they will know how to stop this. God damn me, for I have damned us all. fifthisttale page revision: 17, last edited: 03 May 2020 20:04 Nsb Notes OzRadOnc A collection of thoughts and notes ΔΙΑΤΡΟΦΙΚΕΣ ΣΥΝΗΘΕΙΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΜΑΘΗΤΩΝ ΣΤΟ ΣΧΟΛΕΙΟ	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line94
__label__wiki	0.937456	0.937456	How Mark Daigneault rose from UConn manager to OKC Thunder head coach: 'Never bet against smart guys' by Joe Mussatto Published: Sun, November 15, 2020 7:00 AM Mark Daigneault prepared a list of people he wanted to thank. His wife, Ashley. His parents and his sister. Thunder general manager Sam Presti and chairman Clay Bennett. And then Daigneault got to his coaches. He thanked Steve Dubzinski at Leominster High School. Jim Calhoun and George Blaney at Connecticut. Ralph Willard at Holy Cross. Lastly, Billy Donovan. “When Sam called me and offered me the job the other day,” Daigneault said at his introductory press conference, “I was just so overwhelmed thinking about all the people that have had their fingerprints on my life and career.” Each of those coaches, whom Daigneault recited in chronological order, marked a stop on his accelerated route to being named head coach of the Thunder on Wednesday. Daigneault, 35, was promoted after one season as an assistant. “I’ve been with people that have definitely seen potential in me and definitely believe in me,” Daigneault said, “but they’ve given me these opportunities well before I’ve earned them. They’ve invested rather than rewarded.” Daigneault has already proven worthy of the investment. 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He may explain with Bruce Springsteen lyrics Article: Tramel: Hear me out; how about another Chris Paul-Russell Westbrook trade? Article: OKC Thunder: Mark Daigneault focuses on filling out staff Article: Tramel: The G League chaos bred Mark Daigneault to be an NBA head coach Video: Thunder Update: Presti address Donovan's departure Dubzinski had to keep quiet. Now the principal at Leominster High School in Daigneault’s Massachusetts hometown, Dubzinski received a call from Daigneault early Wednesday morning before the news broke. “I got teary-eyed,” Dubzinski said of learning that his former high school player was about to be named coach of the Thunder. Then Dubzisnki watched Daigneault’s press conference, and Dubzinski heard his name lumped together with the likes of Calhoun and Donovan. “Which one of these doesn't belong?” Dubzinski asked with a laugh. “Those guys are like on the Mount Rushmore of basketball, and I'm basically bringing up the next stone to be carved.” Before serving as principal, Dubzinski was the basketball coach and guidance counselor at Leominster High School. Leominster, pronounced Lemon-ster, sits 50 miles northwest of Boston and 25 miles west of Concord, where Presti is from. Daigneault’s parents still live in the town of 40,000, and news of their son’s promotion spread quickly. “They're not all swept up in ‘My son's an NBA coach,’” Dubzinski said. “It's not about the fame and the name and the new paycheck. I said today, if Mark was in Leominster, Mass., coaching a fifth grade travel basketball team, he would put the same attention to detail, the same amount of effort and energy as he's going to in Oklahoma City.” Billy McEvoy, who now lives in nearby Acton, Massachusetts, had to explain to his three young children why their NBA allegiances were suddenly shifting from the Celtics to the Thunder. “They had a tough time grasping that,” said McEvoy, a childhood friend and high school teammate of Daigneault’s. “I have always loved the Celtics, but if you asked me who would I like to hold up that trophy, Brad Stevens or Mark Daigneault? I'm gonna go Mark Daigneault any day of the week.” Dubzinski knew Daigneault was in the mix for the Thunder job, but the two-month search following Donovan’s departure was dragging on. It was only right that Dubzinski was one of the first to find out Wednesday. Daigneault wasn’t Dubzinski’s most talented player at Leominster High School, but Daigneault instead relied on outsmarting opponents. “He's always been a coach at heart,” McEvoy said. “You could see it from an early age.” So many describe Daigneault as an old soul, to which McEvoy chuckles. “You can only imagine the ribbing he took in high school,” McEvoy said. “An old soul is an understatement. Mature beyond his years, and he still is.” If Dubzinski ever had to step out of practice, Daigneault was put in charge. “Quite frankly I think they got better coaching,” Dubzinski said, joking that a new offense and trap defense would be installed by the time he returned. As a sophomore or junior, Daigneault started to weigh his future. He could try to play small-time college basketball, or he could attend one of the top basketball schools in the country and try to latch on somehow with a program. Daigneault remembers when he told Dubzinski that he wanted to coach. To which Dubzinski said, “you can absolutely coach.” “When you hear that from somebody that you respect, when you’ve never heard it at that point in your life, it’s powerful,” Daigneault said. “It’s really powerful.” Dubzinski soon organized a school-funded college trip to the University of Connecticut. Daigneault and about 10 other kids loaded into a van for the 70-mile drive. While on campus, Daigneault walked into Blaney’s office. Blaney and Dubzinski knew each other, and Blaney was an assistant coach at UConn under Calhoun. Blaney told Daigneault to come see him if he ended up enrolling at UConn. On Daigneault’s first day of college in 2003, that’s exactly what he did. Jim Calhoun might start a season with as many as 20 student managers, but it never took long for that number to shrink. “The guys pick themselves after a while,” the hall of fame coach said. “Pretty soon instead of 20 there’s 15, and then they find out they have to get up at six in the morning.” Unsurprisingly, Daigneault was one of the few who stuck around. “I never bet against smart guys,” Calhoun said. Daigneault was a manager for the Huskies from 2003 until he graduated in 2007. UConn beat Georgia Tech to win the national championship in Daigneault’s freshman year. Six players from that team went on to play in the NBA, including Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon, the second and third picks in the 2004 NBA Draft. “It was just such exposure,” Daigneault said of being around that team. “I had never seen anything like it.” Daigneault didn’t have much of a role that season, but Blaney would later assign him important projects that exceeded the description of a traditional manager. “Another person,” Daigneault said, “that when you’re at a vulnerable stage in your life is willing to go on a limb for you and use the weight of their authority or equity and reinvest it in people. George Blaney did that.” Blaney retired from UConn in 2013. Calhoun, a three-time NCAA champion, retired a year earlier. At 78, Calhoun is back coaching at Division-III University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. “It’s a damn hard route,” Calhoun said of Daigneault’s coaching trajectory. “He didn't have such things as being a college coach or even a college player or NBA player. He had just himself, which makes him, in my opinion, some ways more valuable because he's actually taking exactly what he is. Not his jump shot, not his legacy, not the guy he played for, but who he is.” After Daigneault graduated from UConn with a degree in education, the well-connected Dubzinski once again facilitated Daigneault’s next step. Dubzinski was working a basketball camp at Holy Cross with Ralph Willard, who coached the Crusaders from 1999-2009. A Holy Cross assistant had just resigned, and Dubzinski told Willard he had somebody for the job. “They hadn’t publicly announced that the assistant left,” Daigneault said. “I literally had the information that the job was open before anybody. And I just went to practice every single day. I just sat there, and I watched practice. I learned so much anyway, but I was also hustling for the job.” Holy Cross had an overseas trip that summer in 2007, and Daigneault found out where the team was staying. “I sent them all these materials, which I’d probably be embarrassed to look at now,” Daigneault said. “I don’t even remember what the heck I thought was right back then, I was just sending them anything.” “What 22-year-old kid even has the guts?” Dubzinski said. “Ralph Willard, George Blaney, Jim Calhoun. They're intimidating figures. But not for the 22-year-old who's a little bit different. Different in a good way.” In September 2007, Holy Cross hired Daigneault as an assistant coach. R.J. Evans played under Daigneault for two seasons at Holy Cross. A friend texted Evans on Wednesday, telling him to turn on ESPN. Evans saw the news scroll across the ticker. “He’s the closest assistant coach I’ve ever been to,” Evans said of Daigneault. “He’s the reason I’m in college basketball.” Evans now works as an assistant at Holy Cross, mentoring young players just as Daigneault mentored him. “He really wants to see you develop as a player, and he puts the time in to make sure you know that,” Evans said. “My biggest struggle was outside shooting, and he helped me with that tremendously. I told him the other day, all those bad misses he rebounded for me finally paid off.” Had the Holy Cross job not come open, Daigneault planned to stay at UConn for graduate school. When the Holy Cross staff was let go after Daigneault’s third season, he saw that as an opening to earn his master’s degree. “But I also wanted to have my cake and eat it too, and keep my foot in the door,” Daigneault said. He applied to Florida, knowing he had a mutual friend with Donovan as well as having a few connections with some of Donovan’s assistants in Gainesville. “I kind of walked in the door and said, ‘Hey, I’m here, I’ll do anything you guys want me to do,’” Daigneault said. Daigneault made a good first impression. Within two weeks, Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley called Daigneault, telling him that he was picking up the bill for Daigneault’s graduate schooling. Donovan didn’t have a coaching job to offer Daigneault, so Daigneault started as a volunteer in 2010. He was more of an assistant to Donovan rather than an assistant under Donovan. “I really tried to give him a runway to be as creative as he could be inside of his job,” Donovan said. Preston Greene, Florida’s director of strength and conditioning, roomed with Daigneault on the road for one season. Every morning they got up early, before the rest of the team, and walked to a coffee shop. Daigneault didn’t have a prominent role on the staff, which made Greene marvel at Daigneault’s work ethic. “Finding some information or matchups that he could pass on to the staff and to Coach Donovan,” Greene said. “His preparation at that age and in that role, he was preparing that day as if he was the head coach.” NBA scouts and front office executives would drop in on practices during Daigneault’s four years at Florida, especially during Bradley Beal’s freshman season in 2011-12. When Presti was in town, Daigneault and Oliver Winterbone, a Florida video coordinator who would also go on to work for the Thunder, asked Presti if they could pick his brain. “We just pulled these rolling chairs up next to him and sat down with him,” Daigneault said. “We were on that concourse with him into the night. “I noticed the same things everyone notices about Sam when I interacted with him, that he was highly intelligent, highly curious and humble. The thing that really stuck with me more than anything is the time he was willing to give us. Blind. He didn’t know who we were then. And obviously a relationship blossomed from that.” Presti hired Daigneault to coach the G League Oklahoma City Blue in August 2014. Daigneault was only 29. The Blue went 143-107 in Daigneault’s five seasons as head coach. Donovan made the move from Gainesville to Oklahoma City in 2015, one year after Daigneault. “When he was at the Blue, we would talk basketball,” Donovan said. “He'd send me clips and say, ‘Hey, watch this. Can you give me your ideas or thoughts?’ Or, ‘Hey, our team's struggling with this. Can you give me some ideas on this or that?’ And then vice versa, when their season finished up, I'd kind of do the same thing with him. We were always kind of exchanging ideas.” Donovan, who was named head coach of the Bulls in September, was happy to see Daigneault as his successor in Oklahoma City. “So many things can be transactional, and our relationship was never transactional,” Donovan said. “If we never talk basketball again the rest of our lives, it would still be a very, very close relationship.” “I just have so many people like him in my life,” Daigneault said, “that have had that type of impact on me.” From Dubzinski to Donovan, with several in between. They prepared Daigneault for the journey, believing in him at every turn. “The best part of this, honestly,” Daigneault said, “is being able to share it.” Mark Daigneault held jobs at UConn, Holy Cross and Florida before moving to Oklahoma City. Daigneault was promoted to Thunder head coach on Wednesday. [Photo by Otto Kitsinger/NBAE via Getty Images] Mark Daigneault, second from right, watches a Feb. 11 game between the Thunder and Spurs at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. [Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman] The Blue went 143-107 in Mark Daigneault’s five seasons as head coach. [Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman] Joe Mussatto Joe Mussatto joined The Oklahoman in August 2018 to cover OU football, men’s basketball and softball. He previously covered University of Kentucky football and basketball for SEC Country. Mussatto is from Oklahoma City and lives in Norman. Read more › CommentsHow Mark Daigneault rose from UConn manager to OKC Thunder head coach: 'Never bet against smart guys'	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line95
__label__cc	0.663616	0.336384	Home » Researchers » Research Articles » Vocabulary » An Analysis of the Features of Words That Influence Vocabulary Difficulty Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott , Ruben Castaneda, and Alexandra Spichtig Hiebert, E.H., Scott, J.A., Castaneda, R., & Spichtig, A. (2019). An Analysis of the Features of Words That Influence Vocabulary Difficulty. Education Sciences, (9)1. Retrieved from: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/9/1/8. The two studies reported on in this paper examine the features of words that distinguish students’ performances on vocabulary assessments as a means of understanding what contributes to the ease or difficulty of vocabulary knowledge. The two studies differ in the type of assessment, the types of words that were studied, and the grade levels and population considered. In the first study, an assessment of words that can be expected to appear with at least moderate frequency at particular levels of text was administered to students in grades 2 through 12. The second study considered the responses of fourth- and fifth-grade students, including English learners, to words that teachers had identified as challenging for those grade levels. The effects of the same set of word features on students’ vocabulary knowledge were examined in both studies: predicted appearances of a word and its immediate morphological family members, number of letters and syllables, dispersion across content areas, polysemy, part of speech, age of acquisition, and concreteness. The data consisted of the proportion of students who answered an item correctly. In the first study, frequency of a word’s appearance in written English and age of acquisition predicted students’ performances. In the second study, age of acquisition was again critical but so too were word length, number of syllables, and concreteness. Word location (which was confounded by word frequency) also proved to be a predictor of performance. Findings are discussed in relation to how they can inform curriculum, instruction, and research. Hiebert-2019-An-Analysis-of-the-feature-of-Words-that-Influence-Vocab-Difficulty.pdf (548 KB)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line97
__label__wiki	0.704451	0.704451	Saturday Night Live: Season 45, Episode 10 “Host: Eddie Murphy” (B+) This episode serves as the official Emmy submission for three different players. The first is of course host Eddie Murphy, making a return to the show that made him famous thirty-four years later. Like Adam Sandler last year, he was greeted enthusiastically by many fans and had an opportunity to reprise some of his roles to much excitement and laughter from the current players. Having Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle all stop by helped to amplify the significance of his return to the show, and he had the chance to completely steal the Weekend Update from Colin Jost and Michael Che by appearing as Gumby. His best performance was in Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood where he educated the audience about squatter’s rights, gentrification, and how to bail out the window when an apparent offspring shows up to meet his father. Cecily Strong earned her first Emmy bid this year as a member of this ensemble, and she got the chance in this episode to play two political figures, Tulsi Gabbard and Jeanine Pirro. The latter was most impressive, reminiscent of Kate McKinnon’s RBG pouring Emergen-C powder into her mouth when she kept vomiting up wine on Colin. It wasn’t the most formidable showcase overall, but it was still fun. And then we have Maya Rudolph, who earned a nomination for this show and for “The Good Place” in the same category, and who benefits from the best possible timing of Kamala Harris being announced as Joe Biden’s running mate right before final Emmy voting begins. She is pretty terrific, and she also gets to appear in a brief spot as Eddie’s wife in a “Home for the Holidays” sketch. Overall, this episode was punctuated by funny sketches but brought down by lackluster parodies of “Nailed It!” and “The Masked Singer,” two shows that don’t necessarily need to be mocked since they’re already not all that serious. Labels: Host Eddie Murphy, Saturday Night Live	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line100
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We ourselves received this on the 19th of January, that's about two days ago; from our contact in Port Elizabeth (PE). They say this of the Latin Mass, we were involved in new media promotion of: "The Mass on New Years Day at Corpus Christi Church was well attended: over 100 people in attendance, many of them parishioners of this church, others from further afield. Mgr John Clark offered a beautiful Low Mass and the response from those in attendance was generally very favourable. Photos were taken and I hope - even at this late stage, over 2 weeks later - to post these. Mgr Clark continues to offer this Mass every Friday at 5:30pm at St Vincent's Church (his parish). We are hoping to organise more frequent public Masses at other parishes in the near future, and you will be kept informed - more speedily than this time!" (we have added lines in between, but not altered the text itself.) The Mass in Question was held on January first. 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Philomena as a saint for those in the field of Media Little is known about the famous saint, virgin and martyr- she was a greek princess who had promised her virginity to Christ, and refused- to her violent death to break this promise- when the Roman Emperor tried to force a marriage, after threatening unjust war on her parent's nation. Like any good Catholic journalist aspires to be- Philomena considered herself first a citizen of heaven- and refused any threats and advances against her dignity- including the fate of her small nation. When miracles started happening around her remains- a Catholic religious, called a Canon, spoke of this to the Holy See. Saint Philomena was canonized as a saint by the Pope, based purely on these miracles- the world knowing nothing of her. Without any story of her life- another sort of information miracle occurred around her: She spoke, if the sources are to be believed- as testified to by many separate people with the same basic story. 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__label__wiki	0.667803	0.667803	Click for the St. Louis Program Local Solutions for National Change (Columbus, OH) Program and Schedule Connecting Communities, Overcoming Barriers (St. Louis, MO) Current National Walking Summit-Columbus Sponsors Current National Walking Summit-St. Louis Sponsors Building Connections, Overcoming Barriers The insight2050 Corridor Concepts brings new tools and modeling capacity to decision about where and how to grow, where to invest transit resources and how to balance community goals. Walkability is instrumental in the land use, transit and community goals as higher density development and better transit options encourage walking. In short, walking is embedded in the DNA of the Corridor Concepts and central Ohio’s future. Learn how the Corridor Concepts have inspired a region to take immediate action in making their community more transit friendly and walkable. Download the Presentation Moderator: Jennifer Noll, Principal Planner, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC Justin Goodwin, AICP is the Transportation Planning Manager for the City of Columbus Department of Public Service. His responsibilities include a wide variety of multi-modal planning and street design initiatives, including long range thoroughfare planning, active transportation systems, and coordination with agency partners such as COTA and MORPC. Justin holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geography from Ohio University, and a Master of City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University, where he also periodically teaches. Justin is an advocate for multi-modal commuting, and mixes cycling, transit, driving and shared mobility in his daily and weekly travel. Claudia Husak’s responsibilities as a Planner with the City of Dublin have included work on many aspects of the transformative Bridge Street District, which includes the intent of creating a walkable environment with interconnected streets that can accommodate multiple modes of transportation. As a first for this central Ohio suburb, requirements for Dublin’s new downtown include complete street elements to promote an integrated, balanced, and safe transportation network for all users. Throughout the implementation of development within the Bridge Street District, Claudia and her team have worked with developers and policy makers to ensure that this new and innovative type of development in the City of Dublin includes Complete Streets principles with new roadways that accommodate users of all ages and abilities, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, motorists, persons with disabilities, and adjacent land users. Shannon Sorrell serves as Director of Parks and Recreation with the City of Whitehall. With a background in public parks and recreation, nonprofit operations, accounting and business administration, Shannon is passionate about her role in redeveloping Whitehall’s park amenities and services alongside a great team of staff, administration and city leadership. Shannon enjoys all things outdoors – hiking, camping, fishing, sports and exploring with her kids – and making new programs and experiences a possibility for the families of Whitehall. With the mantra of “go and do good” and the belief “done is more important than perfect”, the team in Whitehall is making a huge impact across the City. Zach Sunderland, AICP is a Senior Service Planner at the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA). He has a Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning and a Masters in Community Planning both from the University of Cincinnati. He is currently a member of American Public Transportation Association (APTA)’s Emerging Leaders Class of 2020. © 2021 America Walks \| PO Box 70742, Bethesda, MD 20813 \| Tel: (503) 610-6619 \| Website by minimize.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line106
__label__wiki	0.646549	0.646549	Submit your view Response to anti-Ahmadiyya Hate Speech in Pakistani Parliament The Significance of Gender Segregation at Jalsa Salana The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly Can we put Religion on hold at work? The Media Virus Against Islam THE TRAGIC PARIS ATTACKS MUST ACT AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR WEST AND EAST By Shoaib Bajwa, UK The indiscriminate and cowardly attacks in Paris are a dreadful reminder of the deep-seated problems the West faces in tackling the growing scourge of nasty ISIS or so called Jihadis, who have nothing in common with Islam or its true teachings. In the wake of this month’s atrocity, President Hollande committed to “destroying” the extremist group. But while more air raids over Syria might appease nervy citizens in the short term, in the long term they will only serve to sow the dragon’s teeth of so called jihadist groups – providing greater justification to warped and misguided outsiders to join up and fight the ‘great Satan’ and its allies. This is all the more the case if such strikes target populated areas and result in the loss of innocent lives. Domestic security is also likely to be upped across Europe – David Cameron has, for example, pledged an additional £3bn to fight terrorism and plans to push through greater powers for authorities to track and intercept communications. But whilst this might offer some brief comfort, it comes with many problems including significant civil liberties implications. The Paris atrocity is a unique opportunity to reject a ‘more of the same’ attitude and re-think our approaches to both intervention in Syria and home-grown terrorism. Firstly, we need to understand why these home-grown extremists have emerged in developed Western nations and particularly France. Sure, ISIS has been canny in its use of social media to attract vulnerable potential converts to its cause, but arguably, it’s capitalising on a failure of nations across Europe to be inclusive in their social policy. Our societies are becoming atomised, there’s a growing sense of social disintegration permeating a lower strata of society, and home-grown extremism is a response to this. Terrorists provide a form of identity for those who have rejected mainstream culture. There’s a rather tragic irony that France – seen as a bastion of socialism – should be the victim of this attack, and whose perpetrators are the very people who have fallen between society’s cracks. An estimated 15,000 foreign fighters – many from Europe – have already joined the ranks of ISIS, including approximately 800 from France. Until governments come around to the idea of allocating resources to prevent these people from falling into the hands of extremists – committing money in pursuit of this as willingly as they do on say military hardware, the threat of ISIS from within Europe’s borders will only grow. At the same time as ensuring nations offer hope and opportunity for all to progress and lead fulfilled lives, irrespective of race or creed or colour, we must de-legitimise the perverted ISIS ideology. We must poke holes in its spurious claims and de-glamorise its call to jihad. Muslim leaders and Imams have a vital role to play here, coming out loud on the true interpretation of Islam such as on Jihad. They should also help to identify vulnerable young men or women and redirect them to other ways of answering the needs, concerns and the sense of isolation that is driving them to society’s margins. This requires national policy-makers working with those Muslim groups. It’s not a silver bullet but it can create the conditions in which fostering the next generation of home-grown terrorists is made that much more difficult. However, even if Western Governments significantly shift their domestic approach to inclusivity and social policy, this has to go hand-in-hand with significant foreign policy changes in the Middle East. President Hollande’s response to the attacks – just sending an aircraft carrier to the region and sanctioning French jets to drop 20 guided bombs at ISIS – will do little to reduce the threat of terrorism at home. The West should focus efforts on diplomatic solutions. Western involvement in Syria has been a confused mess, targeting at first Assad and latterly ISIS as priorities changed. Indeed recently declassified Pentagon documents demonstrate that the US-led strategy in Syria contributed directly to the rise of ISIS. It has been estimated that around half of all Syrian rebels supported by the West were Islamist jihadists. Not only were the West’s attempts to unseat Assad unsuccessful, the very act of doing so – by supporting the rebel groups – has given rise to ISIS. The situation is rapidly becoming a lose-lose for the West and it’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which continued bombing raids alone will crush ISIS – even if it has some success it will bolster Assad, making his removal all the more problematic, not that it should be for Western powers to determine who should lead Syria. A significant part of the solution also has to be encouraging the Muslim Gulf States to take a more active and constrictive role in the region. It’s not just the US and its allies that are to blame for the rise of ISIS. The regional powers in the Gulf have quietly been channelling funds, weapons and other support to rebel groups in their attempts to overthrow Assad. In 2014, a senior Qatari official claimed that Qatar and Saudi Arabia had for years been providing military and financial assistance to both al-Qaeda’s Syrian arm and ISIS (part of a wider regional struggle for influence with rival Iran). So even if the West were to step back from armed involvement in the conflict, the Gulf States must also be made to engage diplomatically to end the civil war. The hope surely lies in finding common ground between the Syrian Government, the West, the Gulf States and Russia in order to find ultimately a long-term sustainable and beneficial political solution for the Syrian people – not an easy task but one that must be a top priority. The attacks that have shocked Parisians have shocked all of us. Yet our politicians are once again beating the war drum, taking up the rhetoric of vengeance. It’s time they took the longer view and acknowledged that appeasing short-term goals will only make finding solutions in the long term more difficult, and make a repetition of the tragedy elsewhere in Europe even more likely. Shoaib Bajwa is a London based financial services professional and takes a keen interest in social and political issues. Shoaib.kalim@gmail.com Share the post " THE TRAGIC PARIS ATTACKS MUST ACT AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR WEST AND EAST" Bigotry veiled as liberation LEGALISED PERSECUTION IN PAKISTAN AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS © 2015 The Viewpoint	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line108
__label__wiki	0.923896	0.923896	Search Our Cases Exact Match Related Matches VIEW THE FULL CASE ARCHIVE >> UK Cases Overseas Cases Australia (Australia's Capital Territory) Australia (New South Wales) Australia (Northern Territory) Australia (Queensland) Australia (Southern Territory) Australia (Western Australia) Australia (Victoria) Scottish Legal Terms Australia (Australian Capital Territory) Australia (Tasmania) IDE Contracting Ltd v RG Carter Cambridge Ltd [2004] EWHC 36 This summary was provided by CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. For more information visit http://www.cms-cmck.com/Construction/Construction-Disputes When referring a dispute to adjudication pursuant to Paragraph 2 of the Scheme the notice of adjudication has to come before the referring party can request the person named in the contract to act as adjudicator, unless he has already indicated to the parties that he is unwilling or unable to do so. If the named adjudicator indicates that he is unable to act then provided the indication is made to all parties, the referring party can proceed under Paragraph 6(1)(b) to request the nominating body to select a person to act as adjudicator. It was unnecessary for the defendant to show actual prejudice. Technology & Construction Court. HHJ Havery QC A dispute arose between the parties in relation to certain construction works which the claimant, ("IDE"), wanted to refer to adjudication. The contract provided for disputes to be determined in accordance with s108 of the HGCRA and the Scheme for Construction Contracts (England & Wales) Regulations 1998. The contract named an adjudicator and provided that if the named adjudicator was unwilling to act then a request could be made to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators to nominate an adjudicator. The named adjudicator was contacted by IDE who learnt that he had other commitments. Consequently, the notice of adjudication was sent to the defendant ("RG Carter") together with a letter saying that a request had been made to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators for the appointment of an adjudicator. Having received the notice of adjudication together with the accompanying letter RG Carter submitted to the adjudicator appointed by the CIOA that he had no jurisdiction to act in the matter and reserved its right to raise the issue of jurisdiction during the adjudication and in any subsequent court or arbitral proceedings. Subsequently, RG Carter did respond to the claim, expressly subject to its earlier reservation. The adjudicator decided that he did have jurisdiction to act and RG Carter subsequently withdrew from the adjudication. The adjudicator made an award in IDE's favour, which RG Carter refused to pay. IDE applied to the Court to enforce the award. RG Carter's defence to the enforcement application was that the adjudicator had no jurisdiction to make the award. RG Carter submitted that the notice of adjudication, together with the accompanying letter referred to above was dated and received by them on 29 September 2003. It was only in the notice of adjudication at paragraph 10 that it was stated that the adjudicator named in the contract had declined to act. RG Carter were previously unaware that the named adjudicator had been contacted by IDE and had declined to act. On 3 October 2003 the CIOA nominated an adjudicator who subsequently wrote to the parties on 6 October 2003 to confirm his appointment. To refresh memories the Scheme provides as follows in relation to the appointment of adjudicators: - 2(1) Following the giving of a notice of adjudication and subject to any agreement between the parties to the dispute as to who shall act as adjudicator- (a) the referring party shall request the person (if any) specified in the contract to act as adjudicator, or (b) if no person is named in the contract or the person named has already indicated that he is unwilling or unable to act and the contract provides for a specified nominating body to select a person, the referring party shall request the nominating body named in the contract to select a person to act as adjudicator. 2(2) A person requested to act as adjudicator in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall indicate whether or not he is willing to act within two days of receiving the request. 6(1) Where an adjudicator who is named in the contract indicates to the parties that he is unable or unwilling to act, or where he fails to respond in accordance with paragraph 2(2) the referring party may – (b) request the nominating body (if any) referred to in the contract to select a person to act as adjudicator. IDE submitted that they had complied with the procedure as they had ascertained that the named adjudicator could not act and consequently requested the nominating body to appoint the adjudicator. In HHJ Havery's view, although IDE's submission was correct on a literal reading he did not believe this to be the intention of the statutory provisions. Rather what was intended, in his judgment, was for the notice of adjudication to come first. Then the referring party requests, in writing, the person specified in the contract to act as adjudicator, unless he has already indicated to the parties that he is unwilling or unable to act. If he indicates that he is not then, provided that such indication is made to all parties the referring party may proceed to request the nominating body to select a person to act as adjudicator. Here, however, no request was made under paragraph 2(a) of the Scheme. The procedure was bypassed. In HHJ Havery's judgment it is implicit in paragraph 2(b) of the Scheme, as it is explicit in paragraph 6 of the Scheme, that the unwillingness or inability of the person named in the contract to act should be indicated to all parties. If IDE's submissions were correct it would be possible for a claimant who did not want the person named in the contract to act as adjudicator to ascertain, without the knowledge of the other party, when the named person was unavailable and to serve the notice of adjudication at that time. In such circumstances the other party would suffer prejudice in that he would be deprived of having the adjudication carried out by the person of his (and the other party's first choice). This would apply in the absence of any ulterior motive on the part of the claimant. That said, it was unnecessary for the defendant to show actual prejudice. In conclusion the provisions of the Scheme relating to the appointment of the adjudicator were not complied with. Non-compliance with those provisions deprives the adjudicator of jurisdiction unless the defendant has submitted to the adjudicator's jurisdiction in the full sense of having agreed not only that the adjudicator should rule on the issue of jurisdiction but also that it would be bound by that ruling. In HHJ Havery's judgment it was "abundantly clear" that RG Carter did not submit to the jurisdiction of the adjudicator, appointed by the CIOA, in the sense of agreeing to be bound by his ruling on the issue of his jurisdiction. Consequently the adjudicator's decision would not stand. Summary: When referring a dispute to adjudication pursuant to Paragraph 2 of the Scheme the notice of adjudication has to come before the referring party can request the person named in the contract to act as adjudicator, unless he has already indicated to the parties that he is unwilling or unable to do so. If the named adjudicator indicates that he is unable to act then provided the indication is made to all parties, the referring party can proceed under Paragraph 6(1)(b) to request the nominating body to select a person to act as adjudicator. It was unnecessary for the defendant to show actual prejudice. Click here to read full-screen \| Click here to print the case © 2021 adjudication.co.uk Designed and Developed by GML Consulting Privacy Policy \| Cookie Policy \| Sitemap	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line111
__label__wiki	0.801468	0.801468	Zenziva SMS You are currently browsing all posts tagged with 'africans' Out of Africa to Tour champion, Froome completes journey Posted on September 25, 2020 at 6:53 am PARIS (Reuters) – As softly-spoken off the bike as he is brutal on his machine, Chris Froome completed a long journey out of Africato claim his maiden Tour de France on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday. As much as kids from Kilburn, London, are not supposed to win the Tour, as 2012 champion Bradley Wiggins would say, kids from Kenya are not supposed to prevail on the French roads either. “I’d like my performances here to help inspire a lot of youngsters, especially young Africans. They have to believe they can get out of Africa to make it to European teams,” the 28-year-old Froome said. This is exactly what Froome, born in Kenya of British descent and schooled in South Africa, did. He started riding at 17 with local cycling coach David Kinjah in the highlands of Nairobi and in 2006, took part in the Under-23 world championships representing Kenya. It was hardly an auspicious beginning – crashing into a policeman on the first bend of the time trial event. Froome joined the Barloworld team in 2008 and rode his first Tour de France, finishing 84th and with little hope of one day winning the world’s greatest cycling race. “The first time that I thought that ‘ok, realistically I could become a GC (general classification) rider to contend in grand Tours was during the 2011 Vuelta,” said Froome, who joined the well-oiledTeam Sky in 2010. “Up until then I was finding it difficult to keep my performances high for three weeks. The Vuelta 2011 gave me the confidence that I do belong to the group of riders who belong in front of the general classification.” Froome, first described by Sky principal Dave Brailsford as “a rough diamond, in need of shaping and polishing”, worked for team leader Wiggins at the Vuelta in 2011 and still managed to finish ahead of him. “When I very first joined Team Sky they asked me what my aspirations were,” said Froome. “I set goals. Short, long-term goals. Being able to target the Tour was one of the long-term goals. “I work pretty well within Team Sky’s system. I’m independent but I also enjoy structure, routine, that’s what team Sky is about. They offer a structure for the riders. They have everything planned.” Froome, the first man since Eddy Merckx in 1970 to win at top of the iconic Mont Ventoux with the yellow jersey on his shoulders, was made to wait as he matured as a rider in the shadow of Wiggins, who last year became the first Briton to win the Tour de France. Behind him was Froome, who expressed frustration in the mountains, where he seemed able to beat his leader. But team orders are team orders, and Froome reluctantly obeyed. With no Wiggins this year, the Briton absent as he recovers from illness and injury, Froome quickly set about making his mark. SUMMIT VICTORY On the first summit finish at Ax-3-Domaines in the Pyrenees, Froome soloed to victory in awe-inspiring fashion and never surrendered the yellow jersey, despite suffering in the queen stage to l’Alpe d’Huez. “The worst moment was on l’Alpe d’Huez when I could feel I was completely flat on energy and it’s a horrible feeling,” he said. “When you have no more fuel left in your body and you see the sign 5 kilometers to go and you know it’s uphill, it’s something tough to get through mentally but thankfully I had (team mate) Richie Porte with me.” Froome is eager for more glory. “Personally I think the Tour de France has to be the pinnacle of our cycling calendar, it’s the most sought-after victory,” he said. “Having said that the decision would be very much based on the parcours, on how suited it is to me, to my other team mates. But I’d love to come back targeting the tour every year.” A fantastic climber and an excellent time trialist, Froome will most likely be pleased with the route of the 2014 Tour, which will start from Leeds. “It has been a fast progression for me. I’ve learnt so much but I still have improvements to make in my climbing, my time trialing, my descending,” he said. “But I can’t tell you what the future holds. I have been a pro for five years only.” Athletic and Swimming, africans, brailsford, british descent Can Science from Sir Alex, Murray Reluctant To-Share Athletic and Swimming Sport Equipments Sports Rule Copyright © 2021 Zenziva SMS - All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line115
__label__wiki	0.938594	0.938594	Maynooth University (1344) Faculty of Social Sciences (468) Economics, Finance and Accounting (22) Jump to: Masters \| PhD Ntema, Mosito (2011) Factor substitution in the Irish manufacturing sector. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Yu, Yi (2012) Modeling a Two-currency Affine Arbitrage-free Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Model. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Sheridan, Declan (2012) Modelling football match results and testing the efficiency of the betting market. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Jenkin, Graham (2014) Determinants of GDP: A VECM Forecasting and Granger Causality Analysis for Eight European Countries. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Syngelaki, Eirini (2009) Three Essays on International Financial Market Linkages. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Błaszkiewicz-Schwartzman, Monika (2010) Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in the New Member States of the EU – Run-up to the Euro. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Bermingham, Colin (2011) Studies of inflation and forecasting. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Bergin, Adele (2011) Job Mobility and Measurement Error. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Corbet, Shaen (2012) Quantifying the effects of new derivative introduction on exchange volatility, efficiency and liquidity. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. McGinnity, John (2012) Individual, Family, School and Regional Characteristics and their influence on the expected points and University Applications of Irish School Leavers. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Hynes, Kate (2014) Competing for Foreign Direct Investment Through Investment in Public Infrastructure. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Morley, Ciara (2013) Three essays on identifying safe havens for equity investors. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Sheenan, Lisa (2014) Four Essays Investigating the U.S. Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities Market. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Golubovskaja, Lena (2014) Range-based Risk Estimation in Euro Area Countries. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Curley, Martin (2008) The IT Capability Maturity Framework: A Theory for Continuously Improving the Value Delivered from IT Capability. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Gannon, Brenda (2006) An Econometric Analysis of Disability and Labour Force Participation in Ireland The Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity and Measurement Error. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. O'Connor, Thomas G. (2007) The effects of International Equity Cross-Listing on Investor Protection and Firm Value. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Whelan, Adele (2014) Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Redmond, Paul (2014) Essays on the Political Economy of Elections. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Suurlaht, Anita (2015) Empirical Analysis of Time-Varying Cross-Border Correlation and Spillover Risk. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Woods, Maria (2016) Financial Stability Models of the Irish Banking Sector: Deposit Flows and Property Price Dynamics. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Wosser, Michael (2016) Essays on Systemic Banking Crises and Bank Regulation. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line116
__label__wiki	0.95807	0.95807	Anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of attention to British pop over the last few months can’t have failed to notice the meteoric rise of Adele. The north London soul sensation has been astride the top of the charts like a big-lunged colossus more or less since the new year, with her storming Brit Awards performance catapulting her into another level of stardom. Now the 21-year-old has started matching records set by The Beatles and Madonna. The Tottenham girl has been top of the UK album charts with ‘21’ for nine weeks, equalling the record set by Madonna’s ‘The Immaculate Collection’ back in 1990, and has also equalled the record for this century, which was set by The Beatles '1' back in 2000/01. She looks odds on to beats both. Not only that, but she’s spent a total of three weeks at the top of the US album charts, and has also broken the record for most UK digital downloads. Phew. We would like pay tribute to the new decade’s first new megastar by showing you her video for 'Rolling In The Deep'. Just in case you haven’t it before, like. pop bands, The Immaculate Collection, Adele equals records set by The Beatles and Madonna, UK albums charts, Adele retakes top spot in singles charts, UK singles charts, Nicole Scherzinger, Abbey Road, John Lennon, The Beatles, Madonna, BBC music, britpop, Beatles, Adele, music news, Vera Lynn beats The Beatles	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line117
__label__cc	0.693392	0.306608	AMCHP > About AMCHP > Newsletters > Pulse Newsletter > Archive > 2009 > April 2009 > View from Washington Autism Awareness Month By Brent Ewig, MHA Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs, AMCHP Its springtime in Washington, and the debate about reforming our nation’s health system is about to take center stage. However, as this issue is focused on autism, it’s a perfect opportunity to highlight a few pieces of good news: First, the recently passed FY 2009 omnibus appropriations bill included a $5.6 million increase for the Maternal and Child Bureau’s (MCHB) work authorized by The Combating Autism Act of 2006. As a refresher, this law authorized a program for early detection, education and intervention activities on autism and other developmental disorders. Today, the program supports activities to: · provide information and education on autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities to increase public awareness; · promote research into the development and validation of reliable screening tools and interventions for autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities and disseminate information; · promote early screening of individuals at higher risk for autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities as early as practicable, given evidence-based screening techniques and interventions; · increase the number of individuals who are able to confirm or rule out a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities; and · increase the number of individuals able to provide evidence-based interventions for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities. In FY 2008 Congress appropriated $36,354,000 to HRSA’s MCHB for this program, of which approximately $20 million was moved from the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant training programs for Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) and Behavioral Pediatrics. The recently passed omnibus appropriations for FY 2009 increased this funding for the MCHB portion to $42 million. These funds are being used to expand these programs, as well as support: grants to study interventions for autism and related developmental disabilities; demonstration grants to develop models of systems of services for children with autism and other disabilities; grants to disseminate current and accurate information to families and consumers on early identification, diagnosis and access to services; grants to disseminate screening intervention, and guideline information; and other technical assistance and evaluation. Additionally, the president’s budget outline released last month announced planned investments to “support Americans with Autism Spectrum disorders (ASD).” The HHS budget outline noted that “the President is committed to expanding support for individuals, families, and communities affected by ASD.” His budget is expected to include $211 million in HHS for research into the causes of and treatments for ASD, screenings, public awareness, and support services.” While few additional details on that proposed funding are available at press time, we expect it will build upon the Combating Autism Act, and we’ll report more as details are released. Health Reform Update Congressional committees are gearing up now to write health reform legislation. On your behalf, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs is taking a lead role to advocate that the needs of women and children are at the forefront of any reform package. We are joining with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and other groups to spread the message loud and clear that the way to truly improve health and drive down health care costs is by strengthening our nation’s public health system. Guided by our member-developed and board-approved AMCHP Principles for Health Reform, we are actively reaching out to key staff now to share ideas about how to create and maintain an adequate and stable funding stream to support effective public health programs. Current expectations are that key committees in Congress could introduce health reform legislation as early as May, with a stated goal to complete action before their planned August recess. AMCHP will continue to advocate that reform include coverage for all with a strong benefits package, as well as inclusion of explicit provisions to strengthen our public health system. Stay tuned as it promises to be an interesting and perhaps historic summer in our nation’s capital.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line118
__label__cc	0.557578	0.442422	GEORGIA - WYD Georgian youth at WYD but back home, their situation is deteriorating Even youth from Georgia have made it for the big event in Cologne but back home, their situation is difficult. Work is hard to find and their future prospects prompt them to seek refuge abroad or in drugs. T'bilisi (AsiaNews) Even the Catholic community of Georgia has sent representatives to Germany to celebrate World Youth Day. The country's apostolic administrator, Mgr Giuseppe Casotto, told AsiaNews that throughout the year a Commission was set up to manage preparations for youth in parishes, sending them material for catechism. The youth who went for WYD spent three days together to better prepare themselves through meditation, hymns and technical instructions. The choir of the Cathedral is among those there in Cologne, composed of 26 girls aged between 17 and 25 years who were spent specifically from the diocese of Fulda. Throughout the journey, the choir gave four scheduled concerts (of Georgian and Gregorian music) in Italy and in Germany. Among participants for the WYD, there are also 40 youth linked to the Neo-Catechumen walk. The youth who remained behind in Georgia have been invited to gather in a retreat house on Saturday and Sunday, when the meeting with the pope will be under way. There, in joy and prayer, they will follow the activity on a large screen, sleep in the open air and try to be like their luckier peers who left to be present at the great event. There will be teachings from the bishop, Mass, adoration and a party. Mgr Pasotto explained that youth ministry in Georgia is conducted at local level in parishes and it is also animated by a "youth council" of members elected by their peers from parishes. The council draws up an annual program and goes to parishes to animate them. The council has a two-year term and changes during the "youth forum" which is held according to a specific theme each year in the week before Youth Day (Palm Sunday). However, pastoral ministry in Georgia is far from easy. Youth are often discouraged as work opportunities are lacking in the country and future prospects are poor: one outcome of such a situation is an increase in those who are tempted to try the world of drugs and alcohol. Many youth see that their only chances lie in escaping abroad and many (usually the best) leave, thus impoverishing their communities. Catechism themes usually attempt to make the Gospel real in this painful situation. Many youth are taken up with voluntary work. The Orthodox context makes the spiritual journey of youth tiring: they certainly do not find an environment conducive to school, work and friendship, enabling them to live out Catholic Church life. In any case, collaboration between Catholics and Orthodox is a much sought-after priority. En route to Cologne, Cambodian youths pray for Italians: "They have forgotten their faith". Pope: Terrorism is a "perverse and cruel decision" to be countered by inter-religious dialogue Pakistani Catholic youth do not get visas for WYD Young Indians in Cologne: "We are here to show the vibrancy of our faith". WYD 2005: Mexican-Lebanese youths in Cologne and in search of their roots	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line120
__label__wiki	0.505108	0.505108	Lies and shootings on Black Friday in America I did not shop on Black Friday. It is my custom to stay home and enjoy my family on that day and let others flock to the malls and stores in my area. As is also usual, shootings don't take a holiday over Thanksgiving or any holiday. There were some incidents of gun violence at stores on Black Friday and over the Thanksgiving holiday as well. Several gun incidents in shopping malls and/or stores were reported in this Huffington Post article: Among the most violent episodes happened yesterday at a Kohl's in Romeoville, Ill., when an alleged shoplifter dragged a police officer from his car before being shot in the arm by other law enforcement officers present at the scene, The Chicago Tribune reports. In an email sent to The Huffington Post, Kohl's said it was "cooperating with the authorities leading the investigation" into the incident. A shooting was also reported Thursday night in Las Vegas. Two assailants reportedly attempted to steal a TV from a man who had recently purchased it. After arguing, the man was shot in the leg before the attacker sped off in his car, leaving the TV behind, CBS News 8 reports. A police officer in Rialto, Calif., was also injured Thursday night when a fight broke out at a local Walmart. Sigh. This article actually provides video clips of some of the fights that broke out in stores across America. I am thinking that avoiding shopping on Black Friday is the best way to stay safe. And when guns are carried in stores ( or knives as it turns out in several incidents) ordinary fights can become deadly in a hurry. I have an idea- leave your weapons at home while shopping. I have written before about shootings in or outside of stores and shopping malls here, and here and in other posts. Of course, I have written about the gun incidents at Starbucks stores on many occasions but here is just one. And you can always check out the Walmart Shootings blog for much more about gun incidents and actual shootings at Walmart stores all over the country. But I digress. This one shows how dangerous guns can be to their owners. I write about these incidents a lot. This man unintentionally shot himself outside of a Lowe's store while holstering his gun. Presumably he had the gun inside of his car? At least it didn't discharge in the store. Why do people need guns in or around stores again? Check out the Ohh Shoot blog for more stories like this one. Two people died and 18 were injured in Chicago over the holiday week-end. Some of these were stabbings but the majority were gun related. Springfield, Massachusetts had some gun incidents and violence over the holiday week-end as well. A stun gun was used in a fight in a Philadelphia area mall. How does someone carry a stun gun around with them? It turns out that carrying a stun gun is legal in most states. They are prohibited in Philadelphia. Now we know why. Also on Black Friday, people bought a lot of guns, presumably. Here is an article about the gun sales on the busiest shopping day of the year: Gun-buying after Thanksgiving is becoming something of a holiday tradition. In each of the past two years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has reported a record number of calls for background checks for gun purchases on the Friday after Thanksgiving. A flood of 154,873 calls on Black Friday in 2012, nearly three times the daily average that year, caused outages at some of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System's call centers. The FBI does not track actual firearms purchases, and customers can buy multiple guns at one time, suggesting the total number of weapons sold on Black Friday could be even higher than the number of background-check calls. The bureau has reported 17,238,102 background checks this year through Oct. 31. It turns out that gun sales have gone down so you can bet that gun sellers will find any way they can to increase sales for the holiday season. I mean, nothing says you love someone more than the gift of a gun. More from the article: Even as gun ownership per household has decreased over the last four decades, according to data from the research center NORC, that declining popularity hasn't translated to a drop in sales. Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun control advocacy group, attributes that trend to aggressive promotion from gun lobbyists looking to capitalize on tragedies like Newtown and other mass shootings. "The reality is that in America, fewer people are owning more guns," said Watts. "They have to keep marketing to [gun owners] to buy more weapons." More weapons for personal arsenals? What for? Why do people need to have many guns around in their homes? What are they expecting they will do with these guns? The question needs to be asked and answered. And further, Larry Pratt suggested that gun owners are nervous? The rest of us should be nervous about the fact that all these folks who believe in the hysterics, fear and paranoia of the corporate gun lobby want more guns. Though this took place before Black Friday, it's worth mentioning because of the irony. A second amendment advocate and public "gun guy" who owns a restaurant where he encourages gun carrying had guns stolen from his place of business. Some days you can only scratch your head and wonder at the hypocrisy. From the article: Burglars recently took seven guns from a restaurant in Virginia whose owner has drawn attention for his advocacy of the right to bear arms — and to carry guns into his establishment. (...) The restaurant drew attention after Crosswhite began offering a discount to diners for every weapon carried. A Nov. 20 posting on the restaurant’s Facebook page read: “Today we celebrate the 2nd Amendment! Stop in for Open Carry Wednesday and get 10% off for exercising” the right to bear arms. Does anyone else think the burglars were very aware that this restaurant could have guns inside? Advertising for gun carrying is a pretty bad idea. Such bravado is not a good idea. Where is common sense? One way guns make it into the illegal market is stealing them. Once they are in the illegal market, there's no telling what will happen with them. And this one is another sad case of a young child with easy access to guns shooting himself in a New Hampshire home: A man who lives in the apartment where a 5-year-old shot himself early Saturday morning said the incident was an accident. Police are investigating reports a child accidentally shot himself early Saturday morning. Sonday Bishop, 28, gave an exclusive statement to News 9 on Sunday. Bishop called the boy his son and said the lack of empathy from the public has added "a deeper sadness to an already depressing situation." (...) The child was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the Elliot Hospital after the shooting was reported at 2:30 a.m. at 420 Spruce St., police said. Police said the injuries were to the child's lower extremity. Manchester police seized the .22-caliber handgun and said the incident is under investigation. Good grief. Where is common sense? What in the world was a 5 year old doing up and awake at 2:30 a.m. That is our first clue that the parent(s) of this child were not very responsible. Responsible gun owners should be keeping their guns away from young children. Responsible gun owners don't issue statements with excuses for their own irresponsible behavior. Period. There is no room for mistakes when it comes to guns. As we say on the Kid Shootings blog: Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult. And then there's the political scene in Colorado which came to a bit of a head right before Thanksgiving. This article explains what sheriffs, yes sheriffs, are up to regarding the gun debate over recently passed gun laws in Colorado. Many of them don't like the new laws or any gun laws, for that matter. These are the people who enforce the laws already on the books, right? From the article: We'll be the first to admit that rounding up a majority of Colorado county sheriffs–generally conservative elected officials who have been boosted for years by pro-gun groups like the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners–to publicly front the opposition to these new gun safety bills was a brilliant public relations move. In Colorado, the huge difference between elected conservative county sheriffs who opposed the new laws for political reasons and appointed police chiefs who generally supported them for practical reasons was lost on the public. Furthermore, some of these county sheriffs, like Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, are in fact distantly on the fringe of the gun safety debate, standing in opposition to all background checks for gun purchases. It's always been our opinion that if the voting public understood the positions held by many of these elected sheriffs, those badges wouldn't count for nearly as much. (...) Democrats need to realize that this misinformation, which they scoffed at among themselves but totally failed to publicly respond to this year, has done enormous political damage. During the legislative debate and especially during the recalls this summer of two Democratic Colorado senators, a strategic decision was made to avoid direct confrontation on the gun safety bills. Given the outright lies being spread about these bills, and the media's failure to accurately report on them, that decision was nothing short of catastrophic. It isn't just a lecture in hindsight, folks. Beginning in January, Colorado Republicans intend to make Democrats talk about guns every day, and Democrats must be ready. Republicans believe they have found the Achilles' heel of adversaries who have been trouncing them at the polls for a decade in this state. As is often said in politics today, being right is not enough. Democrats will either win this message battle or die by it in 2014. It's definitely past time for Democrats and others who know that the gun rights fringe is actually lying to step up and challenge the lies. Our democracy and lives depend on it. Speaking of lies, I need to talk about the ones sent to me by some of my readers over the past few days. For some reason ( could it be the corporate gun lobby's fear based and paranoid rhetoric?) there are people who actually don't believe that there are private sellers at gun shows or on the Internet who sell guns without background checks. These folks, I guess, live in some sort of alternate universe. But the rest of us know the truth. About 40% of gun sales go without background checks. These sales occur at gun shows, flea markets, over the family dinner table, in parking lots and on the Internet. These sales without background checks help to provide guns to the illegal market and who knows what happens to the guns after that? Or they lead directly to the death of innocent people such as the Columbine shooting, the Milwaukee mall shooting and many others. If we could prevent even one of these senseless gun deaths, it is worth requiring background checks on all commercial gun sales at the least. One of my readers doesn't believe that there sites on the Internet where people can buy guns from private sellers with no background checks. He mistakenly ( or purposely) maintained that all on-line gun sales have to go through federally licensed firearms dealers where the buyer must pick up his gun(s). That was the case with Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter. In his case, his name should have been on the list of prohibited purchasers because he was adjudicated mentally ill, but it wasn't- a failure of our background check system which is just now being corrected. Unfortunately, it is taking too long for some states to get those names into the system. But had Cho been denied, he must have known, since he was intent on shooting people, that he could get guns from private sellers. Others like him can also get their guns this way. So I have had to "explain" to these commenters that they are wrong. All they have to do is check out Armslist.com for proof that guns are advertised for sale with no background check asked for. I have also had to explain that there are, indeed, private sellers at gun shows who sell guns to people with no background checks and no questions asked. There are many hidden camera videos showing this to be true as well as people like me who have attended gun shows and found private sellers willing to sell guns with no background checks when asked. Take a look at this one done by CNN: There are many more of these types of videos showing how easy it is to purchase a gun with no background check. The seller would have no idea to whom he/she is selling these guns. The man in the video could be a domestic abuser or even a felon. But with no ID or no background check, how does the seller know? And now the guns can't be traced should they be used in a crime- or at least not traced easily. There should be no doubt that what I am writing is fact. And please don't send me comments telling me you don't believe what you see in the video. That would be counter productive and disingenuous. So let's review. In America there are 250 shootings a day, including homicides, suicides and accidental ( unintentional) shootings. Of these, 80 result in death. Of those 80, 32 are due to gun homicides. So for the folks whose stubborn or misinformed refusal to believe in the facts, do they care that we could prevent some of the senseless daily shootings? They should read The Gun Report, written by Joe Nocera of the New York Times. They would find an accounting of the many many gun deaths and injuries all over our country. He has not published the latest week-end report yet. I'm sure it's taking him a long time to list all of the shooting that occurred over the Thanksgiving holiday. So if the gun rights extremists would read and listen to the sources with the facts, what would they suggest as a solution to our national public health and safety epidemic? I guess it's the simplistic and false claim that we should arm more "good guys". That should fix it, right? So far it hasn't worked out so well. Guns are available with no background checks at gun shows, on the Internet and other venues. We can stop that by requiring background checks on all commercial gun sales. We have ample evidence that this is a serious problem. It's amazing that some have chosen not to believe it or have continued to be in denial. And one more thing, I had to tell one of my readers who decided to bring Hitler into the discussion that that was a non-starter. It's a distraction at the least and a total paranoid disillusion of what is actually happening in America. It's also dishonest. And it's not worth the time to argue about it. Lies and deceptions are getting in the way of common sense. Too many people are dying every day. They are real people with real families who loved them. So why would we not want to prevent more families from being without their loved ones during holidays, like Thanksgiving. For many folks, Black Friday meant the loss of a loved one. For the families of the 20 children and 6 adults, massacred last December 14th, Black Friday was the day after they had empty chairs at the first Thanksgiving without their lost loved one. It was, indeed, a Black Friday for them. And for many others who have lost someone to a bullet in the last year. Enough is enough. It's time to demand action to strengthen our gun laws and prevent lives. As predicted the Week-end Gun Report by Joe Nocera has now been published. Since Thursday, you can see that there have been a whole lot of Americans affected by gun violence in most states in the country. Sometimes I count up the incidents and the number of states but this report has too many for me to take the time. This is sad but true. And at the end of his reports, Nocera always provides a count for Americans killed in gun violence since December 14, 2012. Here it is: According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 11,099 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012. This is stunning. 11,099 people of all ages and from every state have been shot since the Sandy Hook shooting. These are only the ones that Nocera finds in news reports. There are many more. This should be more than enough to get our Congress to act. What will it take anyway? I hope they aren't listening to what the gun rights extremists are telling them because they aren't telling them the truth. We are better than this. vention, Open Carry, gun sales, Joe Nocera, Kid Shootings, lost and stolen guns, Ohh Shoot, shootings in stores, shootings on Black Friday, shootings on Thanksgiving, unintentional shootings, Walmart Shootings	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line127
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__label__wiki	0.85085	0.85085	Appeal of VANESSA M., on behalf of her son DARROW G. M., from action of the Board of Education of the Hastings-on-Hudson School District relating to transportation. Plunkett & Jaffe, P.C., attorneys for respondent, Adele F. Waine, Esq., of counsel SOBOL, Commissioner.--Petitioner appeals from respondent's denial of her request for transportation to a nonpublic school. The appeal must be dismissed. Prior to April 1, 1991, petitioner filed a request for transportation for her son Darrow to a nonpublic school for the 1991-1992 school year. Respondent granted the request and petitioner's son was transported at respondent's expense to the Home School in White Plains. On December 2, 1991, petitioner filed a subsequent request for transportation to a different nonpublic school, the Alcott School in Scarsdale. Petitioner states that she requested the change because she realized after the start of the school year that the Home School did not provide an appropriate educational setting for her child. Petitioner indicates that her son had previously been classified as a child in need of special services, but prior to the start of the 1991-1992 school year, her son was declassified with a recommendation for continuing therapy. The Transportation Supervisor of the Transportation Consortium, of which respondent is a member, denied petitioner's request on December 3, 1991, because he did not believe it was reasonable and because a change in the transportation route would create an additional expense for the district. Education Law '3635(2) provides that a parent who desires transportation to a nonpublic school must file a request in writing not later than April 1 of the preceding school year. A late request for transportation may not be denied, however, if a reasonable explanation is provided for the delay. Initial discretion to determine the reasonableness of a particular explanation for a delay is vested in the board of education, and such a determination will not be set aside unless it constitutes an abuse of discretion (Appeal of Anonymous, 31 Ed Dept Rep 227; Appeal of Muller, 29 id. 280). Even in the absence of a reasonable explanation for the delay, a late request must be granted if the transportation can be provided under existing transportation arrangements at no additional expense to the district (Appeal of Gordon, 29 Ed Dept Rep 175). A board of education may decline to find a belated request reasonable even where the circumstances which gave rise to the request occurred after the statutory deadline (Appeal of Bartumioli, 26 Ed Dept Rep 144). In addition, although the basis of the parent's belated request may be the parent's concern about the child's educational environment, a school district may nevertheless deny the request (Appeal of Stephens, 26 Ed Dept Rep 434; Appeal of Spivack, 31 id. 121). Petitioner relies on Matter of Board of Education, Hauppauge UFSD v. Ambach, 93 AD2d 210, 462 NYS2d 294. In that case, however, the reasonableness of the parent's delay was established by "significant, objectively verifiable factors dictating a transfer of schools in the best interest of the child [which] arose after the statutory deadline." 93 AD2d at 213. Here, petitioner has failed to introduce any facts or expert opinion to support her claim that her son's welfare requires a transfer to another school. Accordingly, I find that, in the context of this record, respondent exercised its discretion reasonably. Petitioner's additional arguments disputing the cost of the change of transportation are not persuasive. Respondent attests to the additional cost which would result by adding a route to the transportation schedule after the school year has commenced. Petitioner challenges respondent's statements, but provides no evidence to support her allegations. In addition, petitioner provides no authority to support her position that the board should be forced to contract for transportation on a month-by-month basis to accommodate rate changes. In light of my determination on the merits, the procedural issues raised by respondent need not be addressed.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line129
__label__cc	0.576955	0.423045	Scheming Virtuously: A Handbook for Public Servants What We Lost in the Fire, We Gain in the Flood by Kent Aitken Several observers of Canadian civil society have painted a portrait of increasing centralization of power, over at least the last half-century. And perhaps it is a failure of imagination or thoroughness on my part, but I haven't found anyone aiming to dispel that notion. I'm writing on the premise that it is true, and from the point of view of the bureaucracy, which I believe has lost influence at the national table of leaders. The rationale for increased centralization tends to be increased efficiency. With information and decision-making power held in one place, it's easier to launch bold initiatives and move an agenda forward. Consultation and consensus is tricky and time-consuming. Yet there are trends in decentralization. There is increasing recognition that policy expertise exists in a distributed network of networks in NGOs, think tanks, citizen groups, and individuals. This was a major theme at the 2012 IPAC conference, and you see it in open policy initiatives such as the Open Data Policy in the U.S. that anyone can edit on Github. Like, right now. But this seems like adding insult to injury for the bureaucracy: losing voice at the top, and losing the de facto monopoly on policy advice (see: The Bazaar World of Fearless Advice 2.0). But distributed policy actually represents the best opportunity for reclaiming some of the influence lost at the national table: the key distinction is "at the national table of leaders" and "at the national table. Period." That is, though the bureaucracy will remain a small player at big tables, it'll become the core of a distributed ecosystem of influence in Canada that will only grow in importance. This is a good thing. What's going to drive this? Complexity and legitimacy leading to increasing public engagement, and technology as a thread running throughout. We live in a time when we can no longer pretend that issues aren't complex, and decisions predicated on an oversimplified world get called out. When Radio-Canada announced a name change to ICI in June, they suddenly found that they hadn't considered all of the consequences. They walked it back after listeners and journalists expressed incredibly strong feelings about the name, based on complex feelings about identity, tradition, and politics. Broad consultation is a very effective way to figure out how complex an issue really is. Partially for this reason, and partially because it builds legitimacy for decisions when people feel included, public engagement in policymaking is gaining traction in Canada and around the world. Well, digitally-enabled engagement. Lifelong public servants and politicians that held townhalls, knocked on doors, and wrote letters would probably take issue with the idea of complete novelty, here. And I actually think that the increased transaction speed technology affords in soliciting opinions will be partially offset by the wrenches that having more voices will throw into an issue. And the fact that some of these voices have bullhorns to turn to, if their ideas aren't respected. Regardless, policy wonks will have a well-networked civil society on their side when synthesizing and submitting policy advice. There are both dark clouds and silver linings for public participation in democracy, but I don't think there is a countervailing force that can prevent the rise of public engagement in policymaking. As the public's uptake and demand for involvement increases, the bureaucracy will get better at including the public in the policy process, which will increase demand, and voilà: virtuous cycle. The Ecosystem of Influence Michael Lipsky argues that "frontline public servants, such as police officers and social workers" are policymakers, as a result of the discretion and autonomy they have in carrying our their jobs. Here's an example: when I was sixteen I got pulled over for speeding, in the gray area between the speed limit and mandatory ticketing. So the options were a warning, or a ticket. However, the officer ran the license plate and invented a third option: he called his friend about it, instead. My dad. With direct interaction with the public, there's a level of influence, and accordingly responsibility, within the leeway available in achieving results. What's going to happen is that far more bureaucrats are going to find themselves in that position, as policy analysts become the face of public engagement in policymaking. Policy is increasingly going to become a frontline activity, and bureaucrats will be able to put their mark, embrace a greater responsibility, and add value. On the ground, in the weeds, with Canadians. As I said, this is a good thing. But it won't be an easy thing. Labels: authenticity, centralization, decentralization, faceless, policy, policy making, power, public engagement, public policy Note that while we work as public servants this is entirely our own initiative and what we post here does not necessarily reflect the view of the government, our offices or our positions there in. Notez bien que nous travaillons commes functionnaires, ceci est entièrement notre propre initiative et ce que nous publions sur ce site ne reflète pas nécessairement le point de vue du gouvernement, de nos organisations ou de nos postes. We are all street level bureaucrats now Impossible Conversations - The Ethics of Dissent: ... 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__label__wiki	0.542508	0.542508	The Spiritual Empire versus the Neocon Empire Introduction: Towards an Orthodox Christian World View I have over the last forty-three years tried to express an Orthodox world-view for English-speakers. No doubt, I have at times, perhaps often, been wrong in my assessments. However, that is not the point: as a human-being I have no hope at all of always being right and have no desire at all to get people to agree with me – all the more so as I can so often be wrong. On the contrary, I have always listened with attention and respect to the reasoned views of those who disagree but sign their names (I never answer or even read in full the illogical and often laughable views of anonymous brainwashed Establishment trolls who are ashamed to give their real names; delete is good for them). The fact is that disagreements are essential for reformulating views. That is how we can draw closer to the truth, which is the only thing that is important. That can only come from praying about events, not from the secular media in themselves and assuming that they may actually occasionally be telling the truth. Above all, what I have hoped to do in all five decades of writing is to provoke people to think and pray for themselves. If I have contributed in any way to forming living souls and not zombies, then that alone has been positive. At this point in history, one so very different from the situation of the 1970s when I consciously began this task, how can I sum up in a few words an Orthodox view of the present world? Below are some thoughts on the present state of the world. 1. Today’s Russian Federation Russia has been through several phases in her development. It has passed from seventeenth-century Orthodox Muscovy, isolationist and nationalist because forced into a virtual ghetto by Western and then Eastern aggression, to the Imperial Orthodox period which ended in the pro-Western coup d’etat of 1917. Organized from the British Embassy in Saint Petersburg, that coup handed power to the murderous thugs, bank robbers and bandits of the equally Imperial but atheist period that ended officially in 1991. However, in reality, its banditry continued in even fuller flow until 2000 with the utterly corrupt, ‘ex-Communist’, Western-backed oligarchs who pillaged the public assets of the Soviet Union, no longer restrained by Stalinist leaders. (That is the only reason why they hate Stalin). With the miracle of 2000, this phase ended and we have moved to the far more promising period of Sovereign revival that has been unfolding over the last sixteen years. As a result of the 300 year-old Imperial past, today’s Russia suffers from empire-fatigue, whether Imperial Orthodox or Imperial atheist. It has learned from its previous mistakes and also from the tragic hubris of today’s Neocon Empire, run from Washington, which seeks totalitarian global control. The last thing that the most perceptive and patriotic thinkers and doers of Russia want is the revival of a physical Empire. The only Empire they want is a spiritual Empire, the chance to spread the Light of Orthodox values, beyond the artifices of left and right, throughout itself and around the world, protecting Orthodoxy (as today in the Holy Land) and founding new independent Local Churches. However, for this to take place, the Russian Federation first still needs to restore in full its own sovereignty, that is, to wean itself off its post-1917 dependency on the Western world. This is only possible through referring to its pre-Imperial past in the spiritual Empire of ‘Rus’, before the Imperial Peter I and the Westernizers. Russia knows that it is only part of this spiritual or Orthodox Rus, which was once even called Holy. Indeed, today’s Rus still consists of five parts: Great Rus (the Russian Federation); Little Rus (most of the north-west and central region of today’s ‘Ukraine’); White Rus (Belarus); Carpatho-Rus (the main part of which is still under occupation and is called by its Kievan occupiers ‘Transcarpathia’; and ‘Rus Outside Russia’. This is the rest of the Russian Orthodox world, in places as far apart as Japan and Latvia, China and Iran, Thailand and Lithuania, Latin America and Tunisia, Kazakhstan and the Philippines, Estonia and Central Asia, North America and Indonesia, Western Europe and Australia. Indeed, there is even a special part of the Russian Church, called the ‘Church Outside Russia’ to look after Russian Orthodox in these last four Western-controlled regions. Russia’s Fifth Column Sovereign Russia’s existence has always been challenged by its traitors, humiliated by their Western-imposed inferiority complex; princes from Western Rus bought out by Papal bribery and flattery in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; rationalizing judaizers in Novgorod; Kurbsky and greedy boyars and their Polish advisors who wanted power for themselves and whose first victim was Patriarch Nikon; Chaadayev and aristocrats (many of them ethnic Germans and masons with the title of baron), who became Decembrists in 1825 and their descendants who in 1905 wanted the victory of Japan and in 1917 showed ‘treachery, cowardice and deceit’ (the martyred Tsar’s description of their traits) and implemented the Russian ‘Revolution’; oligarch-bandits (mainly Non-Russians) of the 1990s; and today’s fifth column of egoistic ‘liberals’ and ‘pro-Westerners’, orchestrated from the US Embassy in Moscow. These are the Euroatlanticists, the playthings of the Western Powers and they are entirely unprincipled. And they are still powerful in today’s Russia, largely controlling banking, the media and education. All these traitors have always desperately wanted to be accepted by the West, but they never have been, except as what they are – traitors. The West has only ever used the greed and vanity of traitors as that of ‘useful idiots’ like Litvinenko, Berezovsky or Nemtsov. Believing in nothing except themselves, they are worthy of the maxim of Martin Luther King: ‘If you do not believe in something worth dying for, then you are not fit to live’. Together with these traitors there are other involuntary traitors, the narrow Nationalists and ‘National Bolsheviks’, who on account of their divisive chauvinism also tend to act as ‘useful idiots’ for the West. Although a few of them may be paid by the CIA, MI6 and Mossad, most are simply so enamoured by the vanity of their divisive and sectarian ideologies that they do not need to be paid at all. They cannot see the wood for the trees. Ironically, ‘ultra-Orthodox’ ‘Catacomb’ Orthodox like Nazarov and even thinkers like Dushenov and Dugin sometimes fall into this error of involuntary treachery, which would shock them if they realized it. Having sold out the sovereignty, that is, spiritual independence, of Russia to Western materialism in 1917, that sovereignty has begun to be regained only since the miracle of 2000 – since the canonization of the New Martyrs and Confessors, that is, the canonization of all who have resisted Western materialism in death and in life. For they witnessed and witness to eternal and spiritual values, the values that are independent of this world. The restoration of Russia as a sovereign power promises sovereignty for all Eurasia, east and west, and calls to sovereignists in China and Western Europe alike: Join us and refind your sovereignty, independence and freedom from the common enemy – the Neocon Empire (see below). The salvation of real European patriots, as also real of real American patriots, whom we entirely respect, is in the hands of the present Russian attempt to restore its sovereignty and the values of civilizations based on religion and tradition, that is, based on spiritual independence. Russia’s Allies: Real Islam, China and the Non-Western World Since Peter I the Russian elite class, whatever its name, aristocracy, intelligentsia or oligarchy, has looked to the West. In other words, it looked in the opposite direction to its homeland and people. Given the multiple barbaric Western invasions and aggressions of the Russian Lands, from the Teutonic Knights to the Swedes, from the Poles to the hordes of Napoleon, from the Anglo-French-Islamist Crimean War to the Kaiser and NATO, passing through the 27 million dead left by the Fascist Germans and their allies, the foolishness of that elite class is apparent to all – except to itself. It is clear that the single and selfsame battle-standard of the West, Catholicism-Protestantism-Secularism, is not at all close to the Church and her Orthodox Tradition. Indeed, it appears that in many respects genuine Islam is much closer than it. This may seem surprising, but it should not. The facts of history speak for themselves. Russia has always lived with a substantial Muslim minority, centred to its east. That minority did not launch blood-soaked ‘crusades’ against Russia, it did not burn down and pillage monasteries and churches and martyr those inside them like crusaders, it actually fought together with St Alexander Nevsky against the barbaric feudal knights. Amazingly, some of the best allies of Orthodoxy today are Iranian Shia Muslims, Sufis and traditional Sunnis (all totally different from the Islamists of Syria, Kosovo and Bosnia). The proof of this is not only in the common support for the traditional family or the way that Churched Russian women and nuns and traditional Muslim women dress and behave, but also, practically, in the Caucasus and in Syria, where Orthodox and traditional Muslims are allied together against the Western-financed, -trained and -armed terrorists of the pseudo-Muslim IS. However, Russia also has friends throughout what was once called the ‘Third World’, whether it is in the Eurasian Economic Union, Latin America, Africa, Iran, in Buddhist lands (also closer to Orthodoxy in some respects than the Non-Orthodox West) and, above all, in China – in other words, in well over half the world. The new alliance between Russia and China, forced on Russia by the recent extreme Western aggression on its NATO-threatened borders in Eastern Europe and in the collapsing Ukraine and the US-installed Nazi regime in Kiev, is especially significant. It means that Russian natural resources and technological know-how are being exchanged in local currencies (not in petrodollars) for Chinese manufactured goods. Russia, China, India and the majority of the world stand united together against Neocon imperialism and colonialism. 2. The Neocon Empire A photograph showing President Obama and the other leaders of the Western G-7 huddled together in Hitler’s former villa outside Munich last June symbolizes their total isolation from the Russian Orthodox world and its allies. They represent what can today be called ‘the Neocon Empire’, the contemporary financial, political and military secularist empire of the Western world, now centred in Washington, but before in London. The photo shows how the Neocon dictators had to shut themselves away from a large Western city, as usual, out of fear of popular protest. The politically correct Neocons are in reality intellectual terrorists (they call themselves ‘liberals!’), they are the modern-day Trostkyists who spread international terror and anarchy through their Nazi, Zionist and Islamist activities. Their plutocratic Empire, based on the dictatorship of banking capital, secularism and military violence, and urged on by their demonic masters, is utterly hostile to the Russian civilizational model that is based on voluntary collaboration, religion and tradition. The Neocon Empire is therefore opposed to all traditional civilizations worldwide. These ‘progressive’, self-appointed ‘leaders of humanity’ kill millions of babies every year in their abortion holocaust. They illegally seize power in other countries in order to strip them of their natural and human resources. And this they do with virtual impunity, beneath the cover of the corporate media of their propaganda machine. There toil the regime-paid media stooges, such as those locally who write their laughable, tabloid articles for The Times and The Daily Telegraph or who ‘report’ for the BBC, whose voices only the brainwashed heed. Since the early 1980s, when they first started to come to power in the USA, the Neocons have run a Gulag, in which nearly one per cent of US adults are now locked up, and nearly another two per cent are on parole or probation – nearly 7,000,000 people in all. At exactly the same time, from about 1982, the Neocons began to indebt the USA (and other Neocon-ruled countries) through ludicrous militaristic projects and filling their own pockets, a debt now standing at 19 trillion dollars in the USA. This will never be paid off. Outside North American countries, which were stolen by the slaughter of the tens of millions of their native inhabitants who had lived there for thousands of years before they were so cruelly ‘discovered’, the next colonial bastion of the Neocon Empire is the EU of Western Europe. The takeover of Western Europe began in 1916 when a bankrupt Great Britain was bailed out by the transnational bankers in the new capital of the elite, New York. Then, anti-English figures in Britain like Milner and Balfour seized power behind the scenes in London. This virtual coup d’etat led to Britain becoming the European base for the then New-York-based elite and later led to the US invasion of mainland Europe in 1944. This in turn led to the takeover of Germany in 1945, forcing all German leaders to take an oath of allegiance to the USA (similar to the situation in US-occupied, nuclear-devastated Japan) and the takeover of France by the CIA coup which ousted the anti-NATO French leader de Gaulle in 1968. This was an act of regime change, as the US regularly also practised in its mafia-ridden Italy after 1945; De Gaulle had to go, for he had refused to celebrate the US D-Day invasion of France, seeing that invasion as a US occupation, and he had also defied NATO. The Patriotic Resistance The EU is today a project that is dying from its own hubris. That hubris has led it to create and impose the euro and expand imperialistically to Eastern Europe, trying to absorb countries with a spiritually living culture that can never be absorbed by the EU’s secularist straitjacket of death. It was difficult enough for its original lapsed Catholic core acting under US orders to take over rebellious, post-Protestant Britain and Scandinavia; Norway, Iceland and Switzerland it never tried. But even in Western Europe national resistance or sovereignist movements, of both left and right, are now fighting for freedom, and with Russian support. And large minorities in EU-ravaged Greece and Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania, Hungary and Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, all countries that in some way or other defied Hitler’s Third Reich, now also defy the EU Fourth Reich. On the other hand, Croatia and the Baltic States, with their puppet American governments of today, were countries that generally neither defied Hitler’s Third Reich, nor today’s EU Fourth Reich. As the EU’s power-crazed elite tries to take over Christian Montenegro and Macedonia, Serbia and Moldova, they are finding spiritual resistance all the greater. However, the bridge too far is the EU attempt to seize power in the Ukraine, a fictional country invented by Popes and Jesuits. Its far western, Galician inhabitants also welcomed Hitler’s Third Reich, which recruited two SS divisions there, and so who now also welcome the EU Fourth Reich. Urged on by its pro-Galician US masters, the EU created catastrophe in the Ukraine, awakening the Galician nationalist demons of the 1940s. With blood on its hands, the EU promised what it can never deliver, raising false hopes among a people sorely tried for over twenty years by corrupt, Western-backed oligarchs. Now the junta that the Neocon Empire set up in Kiev is responsible for the genocide of its own people on a massive scale. It is clear that once this EU adventure is over – and that may be very soon – the people of the Ukraine will have to ensure the denazification of Kiev and of the Galician Uniats who were given power by the immoral Neocons. However, resistance to Neocon colonization and exploitation is also coming from elsewhere. In Latin America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and above all in war-torn Syria, there are many who also want decolonization. The case in Syria is at present the most significant. War began there as a result of attacks from pseudo-Muslim Islamists, trained by the CIA in NATO-controlled Turkey (which despite its civil war the fanatics are now urging to invade Syria) and financed by fanatical Neocon allies – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and quite probably Israel. The Syrian people strongly resisted, which was totally unexpected by the Neocon elite. Now they are being aided by the Russian Air Force, which is fighting to keep the Christian presence in the Middle East, despite Neocon opposition, their lies about it doing harm and despite Turkish violence and invasion threats. Nevertheless, as a result of Neocon meddling, millions and millions of wretched Syrians have had to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, now as far as Western Europe, whose peoples are also having to pay the price for Neocon policies. The Neocon Allies: Nazism, Zionism, Islamism and LGBT We come now to the allies of the Neocon Empire. First of all, there are the Nazis, who, however ironic it may sound, are just like the Zionists. (For we use the latter word in the sense of racist supremacists who want global domination, which is what the Neocons want. This has nothing to do with the Jews, for most Neocons are of course not Jews, just as very many Jews are anti-Zionists). As for the Nazis, they have always claimed that they are racially superior to all others: that is why they can in their eyes be eradicated by Neocon weapons of mass destruction. (The only WMD in Iraq were those taken and used there by the invading Neocon forces). The Western Empire always supported the Nazi sadists, giving them shelter after World War II, whether they were German (like the war criminal Werner von Braun), Croat (like Stepinac, whom they have beatified!!!) or Galician (‘Ukrainian’) sadists. (It is precisely the descendants of the latter who today are active in promoting and supporting the Nazi regime in Kiev). Secondly, there are the pseudo-Muslims, known as ‘Islamists’. An invention of the CIA in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Islamists included the US-trained Saudi terrorist Bin Laden. It was he and the Saudis who attacked the USA on 9/11 and yet the US elite refused to invade Saudi Arabia and change its barbaric regime. Perhaps because the Neocons already control Saudi oil and gas? Traditional, religious Muslims are not addicted to violence and do not commit suicide. These evil fanatics, who have existed at many points in Muslim history, for example as Ottoman janissaries, are not Muslims, they are Islamists. In other words, they have no more interest in religion than the ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ terrorists of Northern Ireland – they are pseudo-religious thugs, motivated only by banditry, egoism, sadism and power politics. And these terrorists, from Afghanistan to Kosovo, from Iraq to Tunisia, from Nigeris to the Sudan, from Bosnia to Syria, from Kenya to Mali, are being used as the shock-troops of the Neocon Empire. However, the Neocons are not only allied with such sadists, but also with another dysfunctional group; those who designate themselves as LGBT. In history, sexual deformation, like plutocratic luxury, has always been associated with degeneracy, from Sodom to Ancient Greece, from Egypt to Rome, from the Renaissance Vatican to Paris, from pre-Revolutionary Russia (Yusupov and his ilk) to contemporary San Francisco. Such dysfunctional deformations are always the sign of the end of empire, they are always what happens just before empires collapse. We only have to look at the prevalence of another sexual deformation and also crime – pedophilia – in the present British Establishment. It is LGBT-ism which is now being aggressively used by the Neocon Empire as cultural imperialism and homosexual colonialism in order to corrupt and degenerate healthy societies worldwide. Conclusion: The Coming Collapse of the Neocon Empire More and more people all over the world and of all political views, not least in Western countries themselves, are now consciously calling for regime change in the US and the EU. They want to say good-bye to dictatorship, to the Neocon oligarchic plutocracy and its myth of democracy. The Western world today very strangely, but very closely, resembles the USSR in the 1970s, just before its dissolution. Inside the Soviet Union we saw then that although the ruling ideology was Communism, nobody believed in it, so, as Solzhenitsyn said, all lived a lie through fear. The collapse of the USSR came about not because of history’s puppets like Reagan or the CIA’s Polish Pope, but precisely because nobody believed in its lie any more. Naked egoistic self-interest, the degenerate grab for money and power, is no policy for long-term survival, and yet that is the policy of the Neocons. The Soviet Union that was dissolved was replaced by the European Union. And that is why it too will be dissolved and for the same reason – nobody believes in it. Thus, the collapse of the Neocon Empire is coming, just as the collapse of the USSR came, for nobody believes in it any more either. For no empire lasts – all empires are always killed by their own hand, the hand of hubris. The present suicide of the EU makes this clear; the Empire does not have long to live and its collapse is inevitable. We should now be looking ahead, preparing for the aftermath of the Neocon Empire and its replacement. 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__label__wiki	0.79511	0.79511	Festival Award for ‘Love Eternal’ Published by admin at 01:57 under Festival,Red Lion SOURCE: http://www.iftn.ie Brendan Muldowney’s film has won the inaugural Fresh Blood Award at the recent Black Bear Film Fest in Warsaw. The film premiered earlier this year at the Galway Film Fleadh in July, and has now screened at over at over fifty festivals and markets worldwide, including Sitges and Busan, one of the largest film festivals in Asia.Screen International described the film as “a beguiling and deftly enigmatic tale of dark and haunted love …”, with The Hollwood Reporter calling it “…a blackly comic tragedy and macabre melodrama rolled into one.”Featuring the Emmy-nominated Dutch actor, Robert de Hoog (‘Skin’), and Pollyanna McIntosh (‘The Woman’), and based on the Japanese novel “In Love With The Dead”, from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper), the film centres on an isolated and death-fixated young man who tries to make sense of the world, and his existence, in the only way he knows how…by getting closer to death. ‘Love Eternal’ was produced by Conor Barry, Morgan Bushe and Macdara Kelleher at Fastnet Films, with Luxembourg co-producers – Red Lion , Dutch co-producers – Rinkel Film and TO Entertainment from Japan, with support from the Irish Film Board, the Film Fund Luxembourg and the Netherlands Film Fund. It was shot by Tom Comerford, edited by Mairead McIvor, production designed by Owen Power, with music by Dutch composer, Bart Westerlaken. The Fresh Blood Award is open to first and second feature films. The Black Bear Filmfest is the first genre-film festival in Poland, with a mission to screen a selection of high quality, contemporary genre films, including thrillers, horror, art house and animation. French company, REEL SUSPECTS, are handling world sales. It is expected Irish audience will have an opportunity to see the film in 2014.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line145
__label__cc	0.592095	0.407905	Griffith University map "Around the Sun" review Japanese concert countertenor Cencic Gala Performance entertainment for everyone? Divas and Divos - divine voices of opera Shakespeare & Cervantes Albert Herring THE NIGHT OF THE LUMINARIES by Wis Jablonski On the night of 1st September 2016 I have attended a lecture on the subject of Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. Actually, it has been more like sharing an experience of ‘how to stage it’ rather than the lecture. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant’s Le rosier de Madame Husson and the libretto by Eric Crozier, Britten (Baron Britten of Aldeburgh) has composed a comic opera in three acts, a masterpiece full of lampoon, allusions and laments on the lost innocence. The Head of Opera and the celebrated English conductor, Nicholas Cleobury introduced his production team and members of the cast. With a surgical precision Maestro Cleobury dissected Britten’s opus and by doing so he opened my “eyes” on some aspects of Britten’s musical nuances. And there is more: Alfred Herring is to be directed by the Master of the Silver Screen – Bruce Beresford himself. Our audience has been introduced to the intricacies of the production; on the stage and behind it. The designers, Felicity Abbott and Wendy Cork, and the lighting engineer Nigel Levings talked about transforming the stage into the beginning of the 20th century’s small town of Loxford in Suffolk. The old pictures, photographs and other references have been used to create a true feel of the era. Dr David Ellison, Reader in English gave us his impressions on the Maupassant story and how it was transplanted from a small town in Normandy to the small town in England; not an easy task. To give us a taste of the performance two excerpts were produced by the lively team of nine young ladies and gentlemen conducted, of course, by Maestro Cleobury. What a treat ! After the official part was completed I have had the opportunities to mix with the principals and the rest of the staff. I had a very cordial chat with Bruce Beresford, director I have admired for his work, especially in the movies such as Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy and Mao’s Last Dancer. The hero of Mao’s Last Dancer – Lu Cunxin is Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet since 2012. Wendy Cork I have also used my physicist’s knowledge and discussed the phenomenon of synaesthesia with the costume designer, ,Wendy Cork. We had fun. Another surprise; lovely Liz Tupas, BDO-Arts of Conservatorium introduced me to Nicholas Cleobury. I’ve found out that Maestro Cleobury had been conducting among others, the musical pieces by my two Polish favourable composers: Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994) and Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933). We exchanged a few anecdotes of a musical nature and he has got a treasure chest of those. What a great guy; we are so lucky we have him as the Head of Opera; hopefully for a long time. Albert Herring Opera is a part of the Brisbane Festival and it will be staged only a few times. We, Friends of the Opera secured 10 double passes, courtesy of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. The details are on the home page. Please take this opportunity and be part of this great performance. You will be enthralled. I also look forward to see “ALBERT” in our programme for 2017 with Glyndebourne excellent production from 1985 with Bernard Haitink conducting.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line146
__label__wiki	0.81776	0.81776	Building a stronger future by preserving our past since 1974 Member-only Events HHF Architectural Warehouse Color Me, Huntsville Finding Huntsville Footsteps to Statehood Season Greetings Member Holiday Party The Huntsville Jewish Heritage Center – Huntsville’s Museum with a Mighty Purpose The Huntsville Jewish Heritage Center at the Temple B’nai Sholom explains the religion and traditions of Judaism, provides a history of Huntsville’s Jewish popula-tion, and shares the many contributions of the Jewish community to Huntsville’s civic and cultural life. Located in the original study used by Temple rabbis, the artful displays of the Heritage Center weave together an overarching narrative that offers great insight into the Jewish religion and asks visitors of all faiths to reflect upon the beliefs shared in common. This ambitious project began with a simple request. Temple rabbi Elizabeth Behar asked Margaret Anne Goldsmith to convert the original rabbi’s study into a museum. Without hesitation Margaret Anne agreed to this task. As she explains, “I knew it would please my ancestors.” Margaret Anne Goldsmith Margaret Anne and her ancestors are rooted in the history of Temple B’nai Sho-lom and of Huntsville. Her great, great grandparents, the Bernsteins and Hersteins, were founding members of the 1876 B’nai Sholom congregation. Her great grand-father, Isaac Schiffman chaired the 1899 Temple building committee, and her great grandfather Oscar Goldsmith was a member of the building committee. The contributions of Margaret Anne’s family to our city are recognized in the I. Schiffman Building, the names of streets, and in the names of a ball field, an elementary school, and a wildlife sanctuary donated to the city of Huntsville in memory of the Goldsmith and Schiffman families. With deep ties to Temple B’nal Sholom and the greater Huntsville community, Margaret Anne brought a unique perspective to the museum project. She states, “I believed the Heritage Center would be a way to teach, inform and share with our visitors information about Jewish beliefs, holidays, life cycle events and our sacred Jewish objects, rituals and traditions. We have no efforts to proselytize. After visiting the Center, we want guests to leave with a better under-standing of our similarities and our differences and celebrate both.” And this endeavor, she knew, would please her ancestors. Displayed are two Torahs. The Torahs are wearing mantles, breast plates, pointers and crowns. A Torah pointer, or yad, is used whenever reading or studying the Torah as a sign of respect for the Holy scriptures. Temple B’nai Sholom has anchored the corner of Lincoln Street and Clinton Avenue since 1899 and is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state of Alabama. The congregation purchased the land for $1,500 in 1898 and contracted with William Meyers of New York to build their house of worship. Architect B. H. Hunt of Chattanooga designed the Romanesque Revival-style synagogue as well as other religious structures across the southeast, including the First Baptist Church that once stood at the corner of Clinton and Church Street. The Heritage Center is located in the original rabbi’s study, which is on the northeast corner of the sanctuary building. Marking the entrance to the Center is a collection of beautifully framed Torah covers. The Torah, which is handwritten in Hebrew, is Judaism’s central text. It conveys the foundational stories and laws of the Jewish people, including the Five Books of Moses, Genesis through Deuteronomy. The Torah is handwritten in Hebrew and rolled around two ornate wooden shafts, attached to either end of a scroll. As a sign of reverence, the Torah is covered with a cloak, or cover. The Torah covers displayed at the entrance of the Heritage Center are highly decorative, with gold embroidery and beading. Christopher Madkour of the Huntsville Museum of Art described the Heritage Center as an “exquisite jewel box.” The original mantel, stained glass windows and rich wood floors and moldings impart great warmth to the room. The roll top desk is part of the Temple’s furniture collection and has been used by rabbis since the synagogue’s construction. The space has an air of quiet restfulness, as one feels the pres-ence of the scholars who studied, contemplated and wrote here in past years. Torah Covers displayed in the Jewish Heritage Center The Heritage Center introduces visitors to Judaism through a series of exhibits that illustrate the beliefs, cul-ture and history of Judaism from its ancient origins to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In a display dedicated to Jewish Memorial and Celebration Days, photographs and donated artifacts explain Jewish life events. Photographs donated by Temple members show the celebration of a Brit Milah, or Bris, where Jewish males are circumcised at eight days old; the Bar and Bat Mitzvah, a ceremony marking the initiation of thirteen year old boys and girls into the Jewish community; the Jewish wedding ceremony, where couples take their marriage vows under a Chuppa, or a wedding canopy made of cloth or garland. Exhibited is a candle used during Shiva, a seven-day period of mourning when relatives mourn the death of a loved one. The observance of Shabbat is integral to these life events. Shabbat is Judaism’s day of rest, which begins at sundown Friday night and continues until Saturday evening. Temple members donated Shabbat Candles, Kiddush Cup, and Havdalah set used during the Havdalah ceremony at the close of Sabbath. A second display case introduces visitors to Jewish holidays. The High Holy Days of Judaism are Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment, and Yom Kippur, which is a day of fasting that climaxes the ten-day period of atonement that begins on Rosh Hashanah. Displayed is a Shofar, or ram’s horn, sounded in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur. Also displayed is a silver sculpture of a Shofar. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemo-rates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 BCE following its defilement by the Greeks. Jews celebrate Hanukkah by the lighting of eight candles or oil lamps. Displayed are two Menorahs donated by Temple families. The Passover Seder is a ritual meal that commemorates the Jewish people’s deliverance from Egypt. Displayed are items used during the Seder, including the Haggadah, which is a liturgy recited during the Seder, and Seder Plates, which hold symbolic foods eaten during the reading of the Haggadah. One of the most unforgettable artifacts in the Heritage Center is a yellow, cloth Star of David, which was sewn on the jacket of a Jewish Holocaust victim. During the Holocaust Jews were required to wear yellow stars on their clothing. The framed star represents the Holocaust Memorial Day of Yom HaShoah, the day of mourning for victims of the Holocaust. A Temple congregant donated this artifact. A copy of the Declaration of the State of Israel is also displayed, marking Yom Ha’Atzmaut, which is a holiday commemorating the Establishment of the State of Israel in 1946. Items in a third display case introduce visitors to Jewish symbols, sacred objects and traditions. The Seven-Branch Menorah and the Magen David, or Star of David, have represented Judaism since ancient times. Jewish homes and synagogues collect funds for righteous causes in the Tzedakah Box. Jewish homes are marked by a Mezuzah, which is affixed to doorposts and contains handwritten passages from the Book of Deuteronomy. There are three items displayed traditionally worn by Jewish men during prayers and services. A Tallit, or prayer shawl, is worn during morning prayers, Sabbath and holiday services. A Tefillin is two boxes containing handwritten Scriptural quotations. The boxes are bound with leather and strapped to the forehead and weaker arm and worn during daily morning prayers. A Yarmulke, or skullcap, covers the head of men as a sign of humility before God. A dedication plaque recognizing Temple B’nai Sholom’s 1898 building committee. Tallest, or prayer shawls, are used for morning prayers. Visitors can learn about the history of Huntsville’s Jewish community through a video documentary that is shown in the Heritage Center. The film begins with the arrival of Huntsville’s first Jewish settlers and traces the evolution of the Jewish community over the decades. Explored is the role of Huntsville Jews in slavery and the Civil War, the impact of urbanism and nativism on the Huntsville Jewish community, and changes to the Jewish community with the arrival of Huntsville’s space program in the 1950s. Through this beautifully produced documentary, visitors learn about the contributions of Jews to our city and gain a deeper appreciation for the cultural diversity of Huntsville. The Jewish Heritage Center is clearly a labor of love. Meticulously organized and curated by Margaret Anne Goldsmith, the exhibits of the Heritage Center educate visitors about Judaism in a personal way–through the memories, photographs and family heirlooms donated by members of the congregation who want to share their religion with their neighbors and the larger community. At a time of great division in our nation and around the world, the Heritage Center shows the power of a still, small voice. 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__label__wiki	0.766058	0.766058	Human Rights Voices While the UN devotes its human rights operations to the demonization of the democratic state of Israel above all others and condemns the United States more often than the vast majority of non-democracies around the world, the voices of real victims around the world must be heard. U.N. Inaction on Saudi Arabia All Actions of the UN Human Rights System Critical of Specific States, 2013 Non-U.N. View of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia As heinous as the case of a 15-year-old girl being married to a 70-year-old groom, it wasn't the worst to be reported in Saudi Arabia. There was the case of the eight-year-old girl being married to a 58-year-old groom. Saudi Arabia, January 9, 2013 70-year-old Saudi groom says he's entitled to 15-year-old bride Click here to view this article (and original URL) in MS Word/PDF format LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The incident has sparked much outcry among human rights activists in the Kingdom. A member of the Saudi National Society for Human Rights, Suhaila Zein al-Abedin has urged authorities to intervene to save the child, "and to save this child from tragedy." Abedin noted that marriage in Islam must be based on mutual consent. This was apparently against the girl's consent as demonstrated by the girl's move to lock herself in the room. She said the girl's parents were also to be held responsible for marrying their daughter to a man the age of her great grandfather. Abedin wishes to remind others that the minimum age of 18 remains the legal age of marriage in this nation. Some feel that if this incident is acted upon, it could lead to a wave of prosecution for many others in such arranged marriages. Activists have taken to social networking sites to criticize the parents of the girl for giving her to a man many decades older than her. The groom insists that his marriage was "legal and correct," and that he paid a $17,500 dowry to marry the girl, who is the daughter of a Yemeni father and Saudi mother. Speaking of his arranged wedding night, he said his bride entered the bedroom before him, and she locked the door from inside so he could not enter. This, he said, made him "suspicious about some kind of conspiracy" by the girl and her mother. Friends of the bride say she was frightened on the wedding night, and locked herself in the room for two successive days before fleeing back to her parents' home. Forced marriage may subject girls to abuse and violence, and this could lead to their suicide if nothing is done to save them, psychologist Jamal al-Toueiki reiterates. Browse pages in 2013 Browse pages by region Other terrorists Palestinian Authority/Gaza Browse pages for Saudi Arabia © Copyright 2012-2021, Human Rights Voices and respective authors. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line150
__label__wiki	0.985765	0.985765	ICC rejects Pakistan compensation claim over India AFP Tue, 20 Nov 2018 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 Dubai: The International Cricket Council on Tuesday dismissed a compensation claim by Pakistan over India's refusal to honour an agreement to play bilateral series. "Following a three-day hearing and having considered detailed oral and written submissions, the Dispute Panel has dismissed the PCB's claim against the BCCI," the ICC said in a statement. The decision cannot be appealed. The dispute centred on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) according to which India and Pakistan had agreed to play six bilateral series between 2015-2023, four of which would be hosted by Pakistan. The PCB had filed a compensation claim of $70 million. But India refused to play Pakistan citing the Indian government's objections due to strained relations with Pakistan. According to the agreement, the six tours would include up to 14 Tests, 30 one-days and 12 Twenty20 internationals. The MoU was a reward to Pakistan for backing the "Big Three" plan according to which India, Australia and England had the major share of power and revenues of world cricket. However, that arrangement fell apart and the BCCI refused to accept the MoU as a legal document, dismissing it as a "piece of paper". India cut off cricket ties with Pakistan after the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai which left more than 160 people killed. The two sides have not played a full series since Pakistan's tour of India in 2007. Pakistan toured India for a limited-overs series with two Twenty20s and three one-day internationals from December 2012-January 2013 but full ties were not restored. After negotiations about the proposed tours failed, the PCB filed a notice of dispute with the ICC resolution committee in November last year, claiming the $70 million in compensation. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), which has reportedly spent $1 million fighting the case, described the decision as "disappointing." "Following a lengthy dispute resolution process, the announcement of the decision has come as a disappointment," it said. "PCB will determine its future course of action in this regard after detailed deliberations and consultations with its stakeholders."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line152
__label__cc	0.501703	0.498297	Girdys Gee Gees Girdys Gee Gees Home Page Horse Racing Tips, News & Views Dirty Dozen Turf 2021 Trainers & Jockeys Turf 2021 Dubai World Cup 2021 Royal Ascot 2021 Classics 2020 Breeders Cup 2020 – Keeneland Qipco British Champions Day 2020 Glorious Goodwood 2020 All-Weather Finals Day 2019 Video Preview Page History Of The Thoroughbred Race Horse Guide To Horse Racing Betting What's What of Horse Racing Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 2019 Preview It being the first Sunday in October this weekend that can only mean one thing, it is the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Some of the best racehorses in the world will be on show at Longchamp on Sunday and we might just see history being made. ITV are covering the first four races including the big one at 3.05. I will look at the rest of the card on a separate post, here I will concentrate on the Group One the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Firstly I have to touch on the fact Crystal Ocean sadly won’t be here after the five-year-old sustained a leg injury during a routine exercise in Newmarket last month. He will be off to Stud all being well and good luck to him. As for the big race itself, my thoughts follow. I have two ante-post bets running on the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe this year. Enable at 6-4 placed in July and Ghaiyyath at 16-1 each-way placed back in April; at this risk of cursing myself I am quietly confident at this time. Perhaps I should have a forecast! Treve is the only horse to have attempted the treble in the history of the Arc. She finished fourth in her attempt back in 2015 with, somewhat ironically, John Gosden and Frankie Dettori being the party poopers winning the race with Golden Horn. Can their wonder mare get the job done? Enable loves this trip and her entire season has been geared around getting her here for the historic treble bid. She arrives arguably better than ever and you can see why she is now odds-on. Her 'wide' draw in stall nine would be regarded as fine in a normal-sized Arc field so I haven’t been losing sleep other that. I think she can surpass the likes of Treve, Alleged and Ribot and become the first thoroughbred to win the Arc three times. Big race jockey Frankie Dettori knows just how big this could be. “She will leave a legacy that will make her immortal and that’s my inspiration – to achieve something that has not been done before. She’s an unbelievable horse and she has captured the imagination of the whole world. It’s not going to be an easy task but it’s going to be an amazing race. She’s going to have to be at her very best but fingers crossed we get the job done… Let’s hope that I don’t mess up!” Enable’s trainer, John Gosden, says the star mare has even more to offer. Talking exclusively to Sky Sports Racing’s Jason Weaver earlier this week he said “When she was younger she would run with unhindered exuberance, now she’s got a little older and wiser she’s very much like the boxer who knows how to win on points rather than going straight in for the immediate knock-out. I think she’s wiser and Frankie (Dettori) knows her really well and they have won their races without being really fully extended this year.” Ghaiyyath came bang back into the reckoning after his very impressive win in the 1m4f G.1 Longines Grosser Preis von Baden. He has won at Longchamp over the 1m2f course twice, his win in the G.2 Prix d'Harcourt being another very impressive performance, and following his win in Germany is now rated 127, just 1lb lower than Enable (gives her 3lb). If there is a horse in the line-up to trouble the super mare he might just be it, and I am not saying that just because I am on them both. Stall 12 of 12 aint helped but in a smaller than usual field it isn’t an utter disaster. William Buick said in the build-up this week talking about his mounts win at Baden-Baden "It was a solid German Group 1 – German Derby and Oaks form – and you have to respect those big races there. Remember Danedream won the Grosser Preis von Baden before she won the Arc, and she wasn't the first. On top of that Ghaiyyath won it by 14 lengths with what was a pretty devastating performance – and from a layoff on ground that was quick and rough and not what he would really enjoy. He'll appreciate getting on the nicer ground at Longchamp, I'm sure of that, and I wouldn't say he's one-dimensional. If the pace is satisfactory there's no reason he wouldn't take a lead, but if it isn't there's no reason we wouldn't go on and do our thing. I think he's flexible. " Japan gets the weight-for-age of course but it is only 6lb at this time of year from the older colts and 3lb from the mares. As good as he has looked at times that means he still has to improve again by around three or four pound to get passed Enable. Ballydoyle stablemate Magical has seen the backside of Enable four times now and it is hard to put up a case for her finally getting the better of her old rival. For me, she is the price she is as the bookies don’t want to be laying her each-way. Sottsass heads the home defence and he has done little wrong this season having won the G.1 Prix du Jockey Club and his prep race the G.2 Prix Niel but this is a step-up again. Like Japan he gets the age-allowance but the draw was perhaps unkind to him giving him stall one as he is more of a hold-up type and won’t want too much daylight early. Waldgeist had his prep for another tilt at Europe’s premier middle-distance prize with a hands and heels success in the G.2Prix Foy. The draw was kind to him (no conspiracy theories here about the French horse getting the better draw) as he breaks from stall three. Andre Fabre knows what he is up against though saying after his last run “Obviously he will come up against Enable again and what can we say about her? If Enable runs to her usual level of form in the Arc then she is going to be very hard to beat again. We’ve run against her three times and she has won each of them. Can we beat her? I don’t know, it’s the same for everyone.” French King is the one that has perhaps snuck in underrated being unbeaten this year. He gained his first win in Qatar in February and has since won three times in Germany, the last being the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten. This is a lot harder. The Jean-Claude Rouget-trained Soft Light was supplemented on Wednesday morning. Having finished four lengths behind Japan in the Grand Prix de Paris in July he looks unlikely to get involved in the finish. Nagano Gold is another that looks up against it having never won above Listed level, his career-best performance being when second to Defoe in the G.2 Hardwicke Stakes this year. Japanese hopes this year for the race they want to win perhaps more than any other are Kiseki and Blast Onepiece and Fierement; I think it is safe to say the wait will go on for the land of the rising sun. Be lucky Ghaiyyath	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line153
__label__wiki	0.85028	0.85028	News up to July 1997 British Marine Wildlife Headlines. Reports of newsworthy marine animals discovered in the seas and on the shore around the British Isles. Reports of pollution incidents etc. Wildlife News: Latest 1998 This link includes News since August 1997 International Marine News This is a very limited service. Links to other sites producing marine news from the oceans of the world will be included when known. Articles in other Journals References only. The entries are listed in chronological order, the most recent first, from 1997 only. MARINE WILDLIFE HEADLINES 15 August 1997. An oil slick from a leaking MOD pipeline has caused a lot of mess on The Gosport side of Portsmouth harbour. There are no reports of wildlife casualties. June 1997. A Tope with an estimated weight in excess of 42 kg (93 lb) was caught by Margaret Tuckwell whilst fishing off Selsey Bill, Sussex, at a mark known as the Mixon Hole, which is popular with divers. This weight would have been a world record if the shark had been landed alive and weighed, but this specimen was returned to the sea, The current rod and line record of Galeorhinus galeus, is 37.4 kg (82 lb 8 oz) for a Tope caught off Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, (southern North Sea) in 1991, with another large fish caught in the same area in 1986. Tope are not very common in the English Channel and most specimens are caught in the summer months. The sharks migrate in from more southerly seas. The Tope caught at Selsey was 198 cm long and 78 cm in girth. The weight has since be revised to an estimate of 35 kg. Capt. Tom's Guide to New England Sharks, USA June 1997. The continual rainfall and bad weather all around the British Isles during June 1997 means that there were very few rock pool reports for this month. June 1997. Severe gales and heavy rainfall at the end of June 1997 has resulted in a massive loss of sea bird chicks off the east coast of England. At Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire, over 100,000 young Kittiwakes, out of a population of 130,000 - 150,000, perished after five days of gales. On the Farne Islands, many young Puffins drowned in their burrows. and the loss of Puffin and Guillemot chicks is estimated at 75% of the large populations. (Source: Birds, the magazine of the RSPB). 19 May 1997. The Bottle-nosed Dolphin that was first seen in the River Medway, north Kent, at Rochester Bridge, in November 1996, has migrated down to the estuary. It was sighted in deep water off the jetties at Sheerness Docks on 10 May 1997. This week it was sighted regularly from Sheerness and seems to go up and down the river with the tide. Report from Bryan Vallance (Gillingham). May 1997. A Smoothhound, Mustelus sp.,with an estimated weight of 15 kg was caught off Aberthaw, Wales. It was 127 cm long. The current rod and line record is under 13 kg. This genus of sharks is commoner in more southerly seas. Two species are found in British seas and even larger specimens may turn up. 7 May 1997. Tony Blair, the new Prime Minister of the UK (Labour party), announces his new Fisheries Team at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAFF). Jack Cunningham, MP (Labour party) for Copeland in Cumbria, is the new Minister. The Scottish Fisheries Minister is Lord Sewell, a Life Baron in the House of Lords. The Fisheries Junior Minister at MAFF is Elliott Morley, MP for Scunthorpe. The second in command at MAFF is Jeff Booker, MP for Birmingham Perry Barr. 7 May 1997. The new Minister for the Environment is the Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP. A Junior Minister is Angela Eagle MP. 23 April 1997. Martyn McDonald landed a Tadpole Fish, Raniceps raninus, on rod and line using a lugworm bait from the harbour arm at Newhaven, east of Brighton, East Sussex. The fish was a fully grown adult fish about 28 cm long and weighed 0.7 kg (1 lb 8 oz). There are no BMLSS records of this fish being caught from the shore off Sussex. The fish was dark brown with a white band half-way down its back. The fish is recorded as widespread and found all around the British coast, but is a solitary and uncommon fish. The fish may be put on display at the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton. It may also be verified as the largest shore caught specimen on rod and line. Andy Horton has seen a live specimen at the Cullercoats Marine Laboratory Aquarium, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. 18 April 1997. The new Macduff Marine Aquarium is opend to the public on the south coast of the Moray Firth. This Aquarium is devoted to British marine life with a large Kelp Forest tank which is open to the elements. Macduff is near the fishing port of Banff. Tel: 01261 833369. 15 April 1997. The European Fisheries Ministries in Luxembourg voted for a 30% reduction in fishing in European waters implemented over the next 5 years. The reduction applies to vessels over 10 metres in length. Tony Baldry, Fisheries Minister stated that 'The UK will not implement these measures until the quota-hopping issue is sorted out at the International Governmental Conference'. Professor Alistair McIntyre (Aberdeen) stated 'It was a very good step forward. It was high time that the fishing pressure was reduced, and it would be good for the fishing industry in the long term'. (Information from BBC1 News). There are also restrictions on mesh sizes of nets which will affect French fishermen. MAGP Deal 1997. The stocks are classified in the fishing areas as follows: DR = seriously depleted, 30% cut in effort, OF = overfished, 20% cut in effort. FE = fully exploited, no reduction in effort required. [e.g North Sea (Area IV) DR stocks = cod, plaice, herring, sole and mackerel. OF stocks = haddock, coley and hake. FE stocks = prawns and whiting. (Source: Fishing News).] 31 March 1997. A 30 tonne oil slick was washed up on the shores of the Isles of Scilly from a ship that ran aground a week ago. The first oil was discovered around Porth Hellick on the eastern side of the largest island of St. Mary's. Porth Hellick is a sandy bay surrounded by rocky areas. When the oil seeps into the sand it will be cleared up by removing the sand and oil. There is more fuel oil on the container ship and attempts are planned to pump the oil on to a barge. 31 March 1997. The Sperm Whale that swam into the Firth or Forth is found dead on mudflats. The prognosis was never very good, with almost all these whales that venture into shallow waters will eventually die shortly afterwards. See further information below. From 5 May 1997, the skull of this whale will be displayed at Edinburgh Museum. 28 March 1997. The New London Aquarium on the South Bank, Westminster, near the Houses of Parliament, opened to the public. It is situated in the former GLC headquarters. 24 March 1997. The Sperm Whale has not been sighted in the Firth of Forth despite calm weather. 21 March 1997. A 13 metre long Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, ventured too far up the Forth of Firth and appears to be unable to escape from the shallow water by its own efforts. Three more whales are on the seaward side of the Forth Bridges. As rescue is being planned, but the whale is still there in the afternoon of 23 March 1997. NB. Sperm Whales have become trapped in enclosed or shallow waters around the British Isles lots of times in the last few years and individual cases have not been included in the News Reports prior to 1997 when this Web Site started. Notably a large pod were trapped inside Scapa Flow a few years ago and there have been a surprisingly large number of reports from North Sea coasts. For more information the Sea Watch Foundation, previously the European Cetacean Society may be able to help. Important telephone numbers are included on the Stranded Cetaceans link 7 March 1997. A dolphin has been washed up dead at Telscombe Cliffs, a few miles east of Brighton, Sussex. This is an unusual occurence this far east up the English Channel. On 5 March 1997, a very small Sunfish, Mola mola, measuring only about 50 cm x 50 cm, was reported by Jon Makeham from Looe, Cornwall., washed up dead and already scavenged. Large Sunfish are usually reported in summer and small ones occasionally, notably off west Scotland. Steve Savage was unable to confirm the stranded Common Dolphin, reported by telephone by the EA (NRA). A half-mile long oil slick was washed up in patches and globules of oil onto Bracklesham Bay, Beach, West Sussex, south of Chichester, on 2 March 1997. Initially, there were no reports of oiled birds. On 24 February 1997, a dolphin, probably a Common Dolphin was washed up dead on the shore at Hayling Island, Hampshire, east of the Isle of Wight, after a week of gales. (see notes below on Cornish dolphins). Stranded Cetaceans: Report Telephone Numbers On 15 February 1997, a small 10 cm Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, was discovered by Jon Makeham, in fishing nets in Looe Harbour. This is a very early record of a Triggerfish. In the last decade adult fish have been regularly caught by anglers and fishermen and seen by divers in Cornish waters and in Lyme Bay, Dorset during the summer and autumn. However, this is the first record of a young specimen caught in winter. Rare Fish On 14 February 1997, William Falla, caught a Sea Horse. Hippocampus hippocampus, at a depth of about 55 metres south of St. Martins Point, Guernsey. This specimen was recovered alive and housed in an aquarium. Reports are so regular that a separate file on this web site will be created in March 1997. On 13 February 1997 a female Sea Horse, Hippocampus hippocampus, was caught by Mark Blondel fishing for spider crabs in 60 metres (200 ft) 8 to 10 miles SE of St. Martins Point, Guernsey. See other reports of sea horses in Channel Islands seas below. From 10 February 1997, over 200 oiled birds have been washed up on a 60 mile stretch of the Sussex shore between Selsey Bill in the west and Hastings in the west.The birds were mostly diving species including Guillemots. They were covered in heavy oil believed to be discharged illegally by a merchant ship under cover of bad weather. Clive Pepe (RORE) reports a film of oil on Rottingdean beach. 18 January 1997. A male Tope that was tagged on 17 July 1994 off the Isle of Tiree, west Scotland (Inner Hebrides, west of Mull), was captured off the SE of Iceland in 220 metres of water by an Icelandic trawler in the Sidugrunn area. Information from the West of Scotland Tope and Common Skate Web site. Access is through the index on BMLSS (Facebook). BMLSS Scotland Tagging and Conservation Index (Scottish Site) An oil slick of about 2,000 gallons was washed ashore at East Looe beach and has seriously polluted the shore with a large mortality of limpets. This was first noticed by John Makeham on the 25th January 1997. Hannafore Beach at West Looe was not seriously effected although there was oil on the strandline. A one eyed Grey Seal continues to visit Looe during the early months of the year. 26 dolphins and porpoises were washed up dead on the shores of Cornwall during January 1997. Many show signs of being injured by fishing nets, not by the locals, but by large trawlers fishing much further out to sea. One specimen identified as a Common Dolphin was washed up at Looe on the 20th January. A Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis, was trapped in Emsworth Harbour, West Sussex on 10 January 1997. Southern Marine Life Rescue (Andy Williams) and RSPB attended. The dolphin was swimming around in circles and appeared ill or injured. This species is seen in the summer months of the Dorset coast but is uncommon as far east as Sussex. On Saturday 11 January 1997, the dolphin was rescued but died immediately after being captured. A sea slug, Tylodina perversa, was found at Hannafore, Looe in December 1996 by Jon Makeham. This is the first record in the British Isles of this Mediterranean species. The specimen description has satisfied the experts. In March 1997, Jon Makeham discovered a further specimen. More information available. Please request by EMail. Four Fin Whales seen off Cape Cornwall, inside the Brisons Rocks SW344314 Cornish Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1996. A Moray Eel, Muraena helena, was caught in parlour pot (creel) just north of Herm, Channel Islands (English Channel) on 3 October 1996. It is very rare in English Channel with perhaps 6 records in 100 years. More information held. It was put on display in Guernsey Aquarium. A Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is washed up dead on the Orkney island of Sanday. A Swordfish, Xiphias gladius, was spotted in the Forth of Lorne, west Scotland, in September 1996. The two metre long fish jumped out of the water. It is very rare in British seas. Report by Andrew Johnson. More . The discovery of the Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas, swimming in Hoswick Bay (near Sandwick) late in the afternoon was a first for the Shetland Islands. The species is very distinctive being almost entirely white in colour and lacking any dorsal (back) fin. Photographs and Full Report (Shetland Isles Wildlife) September 1996: A Fraser's Dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei, is washed up dead on the coast of South Uist, Outer Hebrides. The identification has been confirmed by the Natural History Museum, London (December 1998). Stranded Whales & Dolphin Report Numbers The alien seaweed Japanese Kelp, or Wakame, Undaria pinnatifida, was discovered by Dr Bob Fletcher (University of Portsmouth) on pontoons in Southampton Water in the summer of 1996. More information held. Further Information (from Belgium) JNCC Marine Alien Species A Grey Seal, Halichoerus grypus, hauled up on the footbridge supports in Shoreham-by-Sea town centre in Sussex in July 1996. It was well off its beaten track where Common Seals, Phoca vitulina, are vagrants and Grey Seals unheard of.. Adur Estuary Photograph by Steve Savage (Portslade) An Atlantic Bonito, Sarda sarda, was caught by angler of the Marloes peninsula, S W Wales in July 1996. It was only the eighth confirmed record from Wales this century. Report by Kate Lock. More. A Comber, Serranus cabrilla, was captured in a crab pot in June 1996 off Cornwall, and put on display at Mevagissey Aquarium (closed for the winter). It is very rarely caught in British seas, but a breeding population could exist in the English Channel as this was a young specimen. More. A species of Cusk-Eel, Lamprogrammus sccherbachevi, a deep water fish from the family Ophidiidae is brought up from deep water 80 miles west of the Isle of Lewis, in the Atlantic Ocean. This is only the fifth specimen ever recorded. This family of fish normally inhabits the Continental Slope (slope from the Continental Shelf to the Abyssal Plain). On 15 February 1996 the Sea Empress grounded at the entrance to Milford Haven, SW Wales. The next week resulted in a disastrous spill of 73,000 tonnes into the rich and varied marine environment. Sea Empress Diary On 30 January 1996, a Short-nosed Sea Horse, Hippocampus hippocampus, was caught by an Alderney fisherman in a lobster trap. This is the rarer of two seahorses recorded in the English Channel (see news below) and is caught with some frequency in deep water (over 30 metres) around the Channel Islands. One individual was caught off Jersey a week before, and another one just before Christmas off Alderney. There are 13 records from off Jersey for 1995. The latest specimen was returned to the sea. Information from Richard Lord (Guernsey). More information held. A Moonfish, or Torsk, Brosme brosme, is found dead on an Orkney beach. This species is fished extensively by the Norwegians and is perhaps common in these northern seas. Norwegian Marine *** contains a photographic portrait of this fish. A male Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is landed by an Isle of Skye fisherman in Aros Bay, Uig. It is over 2 metres long. At least five specimens of the Sea Horse, Hippocampus guttulatus (=H. ramulosus), were captured in Weymouth Bay, Dorset, by a fishing boat obtaining specimens for the Sea Life Centres in September 1995. Records of this small fish in the English Channel on the British side are very rare. A few years before a specimen was discovered in a rock pool in the Fal estuary, Cornwall. They were recorded in Victorian times. It is debatable whether they breed in British seas. More information held. 1995. The seas of the coast of Norway were exceptionally warm and several Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, were caught, possibly for the first time. 3 September 1995 There was a radio news report of a Sailfin Dory, Zenopsis conchifer, being caught off the south coast. This fish is a poor swimmer and normally lives off the west coast of Africa. The first confirmed British record of the above fish, as described by Swaby & Potts (1999). 2002 record of this fish The first record in British seas of the Big-eyed Thresher Shark, Alopias superciliosus, came from the largest recorded specimen in the world from the Porcupine Bight in August 1995. The full report by Teresa Thorpe is in the Vernal/Summer 1996 Glaucus. In early July 1995 a giant jellyfish was found washed up on the shore outside the Museum of Galloway Life in Gatehouse of Fleet (SW Scotland). It was discovered by Neil Barclay and weighed 9 kg (20 lb). It measured 61 cm (24 in) in diameter. The species was not identified in the report, but it was probably the Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Cyanea capillata. This species is dangerous with numerous stinging cells that can be painful to humans. Moon Jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, recorded in Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. A North American Lobster was brought up in a pot with a European Lobster 30 miles south of the Isle of Wight by a south Devon boat. It is a berried female and was taken to the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth where it has been put into quarantine until the eggs are hatched and will be put on view to the public in their Aquarium later. The claws are a different shape and reddish on the underside and the rostrum is rather longer than on the European Lobster. A Humpback Whale was observed for about one hour, feeding on Mackerel off the Eddystone Lighthouse, an island off south Cornwall. On 24 April 1994, a rare white whale was spotted in the sea to the east of the Isle of Skye. This whale was believed to be the Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas. 1977 Hydrothermal Vents eco-system discovered in the deep sea Atlantic Ocean. The Autumn/Winter 1996 Glaucus contains features on the Lesser Octopus, Diving in Ireland and Sussex, The Educational Marine Aquarium, Book and CD-ROM Reviews, Wildlife Reports in full, The Marine Biological Collector and more. See Link for Contents list. Autumn/Winter 1996 Contents The Vernal/Summer 1996 issue of Glaucus contain extensive coverage of the Sea Empress Disaster in February of 1996. Wildlife Reports include a feature on Feather Stars, a Lobster's Meal Time, Rockpooling on Gelliswick Bay, and Cushion Stars. Shetland Wildlife Records 1996	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line154
__label__wiki	0.572475	0.572475	You are here: Home / Interviews / LIGHTS Interview LIGHTS Interview July 6, 2009 By Kristen Cavanaugh 11 Comments I recently had the chance to chat on the phone with Canadian singer-songwriter, LIGHTS while she’s out on the road with Warped Tour 2009. She currently has a 6-song EP under her belt and over 12 million hits on her Myspace page. She’ll be releasing her full-length album in September, but until then, catch her on Warped Tour (until July 26th) and then a brief ten day tour with Keane. I think it’s safe to say we should be expecting great things from this girl! Let’s get the stereotypical question out of the way. Who’s your favorite band to see or hangout with at Warped? Well, there’s so many good bands on tour this run. There are different bands that I just want to see for different reasons. UnderOATH I’ve always been a big fan of and they’re one of the headliners on this tour and I love to watch them along with Less Than Jake who are like, the soundtrack to my summer for the past seven years. And also, one of the newer bands that I’ve been really enjoying are Breathe Carolina and the reasoning being is that my music essentially started itself on Myspace and so did theirs. We kinda started a Myspace at the same time and over the past years it’s just really, really worked out so we kinda encourage each other at a distance for the past year and now we finally get to be on this tour together and watch each other play all the time. I’m just so proud of them and situations like that where there are different degrees of stokedness and enjoyment of different music but all-in-all, there’s so much talent on the tour. You went from having your songs on commercials for Old Navy to playing the pits at Warped. How do you explain that? What was the transition? Well, I wouldn’t necessarily consider it a transition. I just feel like it’s really important to keep your audience broad. Tackle different things even if you don’t think it will automatically be assumed that you fit there. Old Navy was definitely a fantastic way to show the world my music. I love the juxtaposition I get to have with all of these different associations. Warped Tour is just one branch of that. And I’m going out to tour with Keane soon which is just completely different and one of the other ways to keep everything diverse and keep your audience broad and show people that you’re not just one thing. Your songs on myspace have hit what I last checked to be over 12 million plays. Is Warped the perfect chance to mingle with all these people that gave you the 12 million plays? Do you hope to turn them into fans who will buy your album? Absolutely and that’s one of the things that’s I’ve spent my time doing on this tour. I do my set and then I go straight to my merch table and meet everybody and I’m mean sometimes I’m there, for example, in Dallas I was there for two and a half hours just meeting people. I mean, obviously these people are the reason I’m here and they’re the priority and it’s so cool meeting people and seeing you know, whether A.) they just heard of me for the first time and they’re going to become a fan or B.) if they’ve been listening for two years and it’s changed their life. And it’s the coolest thing ever to be on Warped Tour and to get the chance to see all these people and that’s what I enjoy most about it actually. You consider yourself to be a very visual artist. Can you explain what that means? Every time I do something musically, I always have a visual accompaniment in my mind when I write or when I come up with the melody. That being said, the lyrics are very relateable and very common. For example, I like the way that I talk. They’re not very Sci-fi-y lyrics, but rather the Sci-fi world that I’ve kinda created comes through in the production of my music ““ kind of quirky and lush sounds that take you to another world and that’s even more highly and obviously manifested in the videos and the artwork I’m doing and my website design and everything . Like, my videos are very sci-fi oriented and clearly about me going to different planets. Like, all these things collectively I’ve created sort of an alternate universe and this very visual world to go with my music. And rather than actually writing about sci-fi characters, it’s visual, it’s the hints, the fantastical elements of my music. You have another album in the works for a fall release date. Can we continue to expect those same visual aspects? The album will be out in September and ABSOLUTELY! There’s more of these cool sounds that I’ve been experimenting with just wrapping around my songs but still maintaining the concept that if you’ve got a good song at the core of it then you start wrapping it up in like, strings of stars or all these cool little creative things that really adds a lot of feeling and ambiance to the music. Plus, one of the things I’ve really come to embrace over the past couple of years is that I talk, really, really, really fast in real life and I wanted to embrace that in my lyrics and there’s a lot more lyrics in small spaces. I first discovered that in one of the songs in my EP ““ it’s called “Ice” and it in the bridge I talk really fast and that’s when I realized “whoa, I can sing as fast as I talk! I gotta do this more!” So there’s more of that on the record, too. Once this new album drops, can we expect a really cool video like with some of the concepts you have going on in your mind? Oh yeah, definitely. I’m actually a video the day after I get off Warped for the first single, “Saviour” which is track one on the record. It’s kind of a bummer that’s it’s the day I get off Warped, I’m going to look so beat, but it’s going to be really fun and the concepts are really cool. Once all that happens, what’s next? Do you have a tour in the works? Definitely, after Warped I’m doing a bunch of festivals everything, then I’m going out on the road with Keane in September for ten days I think and then probably an excessive tour on the record when it comes out. If you had to play one of your songs to somebody who hasn’t heard of you before, what song would you choose to play to describe LIGHTS? I would probably pick, at this point, I’ve never written anything that I that I don’t enjoy playing or thing isn’t a good representation of my music, however, at this point, I’d pick “Saviour” to play for somebody because it’s a little of everything I do in it. You know, cool sound, heartfelt lyrics, came from a sad place but turned it around into something hopeful and a lot of cool ambiance surrounding it and it’s going to be the next single so that’s what I would share with somebody, I think! Why should fans come see you on Warped Tour? Um, I think you should come check me out at because it’s a little different than what you may normally see at Warped Tour and you’ll get to see a keytar in action and it will cool you down because most of the Warped Tour dates are very hot and I sing cool things 50% of the time, haha. Anything else to add? I think that about covers it! LIGHTS’ first single off of her new album hits radio today in Canada! Be sure to call and request “Saviour” if you live up there! Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: Lights Bryce Jacobson says Good stuff, be sure to catch her at Warped if you go. Ivana says uuhhh…I missed her on Warped Tour in LA :S I really like her because she’s different…I won’t miss her next show for sure!! Oh, I just got an update about her Contest, check this out: iamlights.com/contest Frankie says I love her EP, she’s so freakin’ talented. No wonder she’s on the Warped tour. xFrankiex Thanks for the link! I’m totally entering the competition. omg LIGHTS was so amazing at warped tour. i hadn’t really heard a lot of her before i saw her set and she totally blew me away. im sad i wasnt able to meet her at her tent though…i hear she’s super sweet. im definitely going to enter that contest to try and meet her!! OMG!!! There’s a contest!?!? I’m soooo entering. Love the prize and I love LIGHTS! It’s so perfect because I got to see her the Warped Tour. It’s great to hear she also has a cd coming out in September. I’m soo excited. I got her Ep and loved it! Can’t wait!!! LIGHTS is so freakin’ cool. I love that she is really creative and always seems to have a lot going on. That contest is really sweet, mainly cos I totally want a Flip cam. Too bad she’s not gonna be at San Diego Warped. :/ i didnt get a chance to see her at warped tour but i hear shes really good. I bought her EP and now i cant wait for the next cd to come out. im getting tempted to go to another warped tour to get that picture for her contest!! Tim the Slipperman says Great interview. Lights is awesome!! 😀 Brittany Hummy says Where did you get the picture? Kristen Cavanaugh says The picture is directly from her publicist.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line156
__label__wiki	0.845059	0.845059	Remembering the Sept 23 Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Vilna ghetto Search the Jewish Magazine Site: Free Subscribe Holydays Rosh HaShannah Sukot/Simchat Torah Humor Pages Israel & Archaelogy Diaspora Places Arab Problem Can Vilnius Remember Vilna? By Ellen Cassedy Vilna. Once, this city with its narrow, twisting lanes was renowned as the Jerusalem of the North, a flourishing center of Jewish culture. Seventy years ago, on September 23, 1943, German forces and their helpers charged into the Vilna ghetto and deported the last Jewish residents to camps and mass murder sites. Out of 80,000 Jewish residents of the city, it is estimated that only 600 survived the Holocaust. Every year on this date, gatherings are held all over the world to mark the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto. This year, in honor of the 70th anniversary of the ghetto, Lithuania is planning to host dozens of events. Both in the city itself (now Vilnius, the nation's capital) and throughout the country, it is the most extensive program of commemoration ever planned in honor of this solemn occasion. On a recent visit to the land of my Jewish ancestors, I walked through the streets of old Vilna - streets that once thronged with Jewish residents rubbing elbows with Poles, Russians, Belarussians, and Lithuanians. On Zydu gatve (Jewish Street), I remembered the words of a classic memoir of prewar Vilna. Lithuanian Jews "were notorious for peppering their gefilte fish instead of sugaring it as the Polish Jews did," wrote Lucy Davidowicz in "From That Place and Time." Nor were the personalities of the Litvaks (Jews of the northern European region) known for their sweetness. They were said to be characterized by "a certain sharpness or pepperiness, like their gefilte fish." I remembered, too, a rhapsodic poem addressing the city. "You are a dark amulet set in Lithuania," Moyshe Kulbak wrote in his poem "Vilna." "You are a psalm, spelled in clay and in iron, each stone a prayer; a hymn every wall." Indeed, I could sense the layers of antiquity in this place. It felt like holy ground. I was in Lithuania in connection with the release of the Lithuanian edition of my book, "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust." I traveled to six Lithuanian cities to speak to students, teachers, museum directors, and tolerance leaders about Jewish history and the Holocaust. Wherever I went, I wondered: What are the prospects for Jewish remembrance in this post-Soviet, post-Holocaust country, now home to only 4,000 Jews? Can Vilnius remember Vilna? I felt encouraged by the earnest and heart-felt questions posed by students, including those from the Sholom Aleichem High School in Vilnius. "Why did the Holocaust happen?" they asked. "What is the best way to fight racism? What do we need to do to make sure this tragic story never happens again?" Anti-Semitism is by no means absent in Lithuania today. I saw swastikas. Right-wing nationalists are present and influential in Lithuanian politics, and there is plenty to criticize in the actions and inactions of the Lithuanian government. These tendencies make Lithuania's plans for observing the 70th anniversary of the ghetto liquidation all the more important. The government has announced plans for installing new memorial stones and plaques. The mass murder site in the forest of Ponar, where tens of thousands of Jews met their deaths, will be refurbished. The fourth World Congress of Litvaks will draw participants from around the globe. Concerts, theatrical performances, and panel discussions will be held. Services will take place in the city's one surviving synagogue, the Choral Shul. New teacher training courses will strengthen educational programming. Plans also call for Lithuania to move ahead with compensating Jews for property seized during the Nazi and Soviet eras. And as in recent years, Lithuanian citizens will gather at museums and community centers to read out, one by one and hour by hour, the names of Holocaust victims. One of Lithuania's most influential tolerance leaders, a survivor of the Kovno ghetto, stresses that remembering Jewish heritage - and facing the facts of the Holocaust - is vital to building an active civil society, "As long as you are hiding the truth, as long as you fail to come to terms with your past," Irena Veisaite told me, "you cannot build your future." In memory of the Vilna ghetto, it is traditional to sing the Partisan Hymn, composed in the ghetto in 1943, with its stirring refrain, "Mir zaynen do" - "We are here!" So many of those who sang that song in the ghetto died. So few survived. But we are here. In Vilnius, in Lithuania, and throughout the world, we can remember those who perished. We can honor the proud Jewish heritage that once flowered in Eastern Europe. And we can do our part to help prevent future genocides. Ellen Cassedy is the author of "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (University of Nebraska Press). Visit her website at www.ellencassedy.com. from the September 2013 Edition of the Jewish Magazine Material and Opinions in all Jewish Magazine articles are the sole responsibility of the author; the Jewish Magazine accepts no liability for material used. All opinions expressed in all Jewish Magazine articles are those of the authors. The author accepts responsible for all copyright infrigments.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line158
__label__wiki	0.936077	0.936077	Gameforge: "In a competitive market quality is the only answer" in Event News, IT & Telecom Gameforge once had an MMO with more players than World of Warcraft, and it was all thanks to free-to-play. The game was Ymir Entertainment's Metin 2, which Carsten van Husen discovered in 2006 on a trip to South Korea, where the market was dominated by a crazy business model that let people play for nothing. At that time van Husen was CEO of Gameforge 4D, a newly minted affiliate of Gameforge that was exploring the lucrative and relatively open market for client-based MMOs on PC. That opportunity was why van Husen had joined the German publisher in the first place. Browser games, then the core of the company's business, were profitable, but van Husen knew that was money still on the table for anyone quick enough to grab it. Metin 2 fit the bill perfectly. All it needed was a new business model, and like virtually all client-MMOs in western markets at that time, that model would be pay-to-play. "That worked for me, because I knew there was more money coming in than I had spent," says van Husen, who became CEO of Gameforge as whole in March last year. "But my founders at Gameforge had been experimenting with free-to-play for a while already in the web games. They really forced little Carsten to change to the free-to-play model. I didn't want to do it." At first, those suspicions were vindicated, Metin 2's costs rising as its revenues declined. Over time, however, the picture changed dramatically. At its peak after the implementation of the free-to-play model, Metin 2 had 9 million monthly active users, at a time when World of Warcraft had between 10 and 12 million subscribers in total. At any given point, van Husen says, that would mean three times as many people were playing Metin 2 than Blizzard's behemoth. ”You can always bet on luck, but we're a company with 450 employees. We can't call that our strategy" All lingering doubts over the potential of free-to-play vanished from his mind. Indeed, by 2008 van Husen had become an advocate of the model, speaking at event after event to inform other western companies of its promise. "Back then, not many people wanted to listen to us: 'It's only because they cannot sell it that they want to give it away for free.' And then people woke up, and for about five years people started to listen. I attended a lot of conferences, evangelising the principle over and over. "I'm not so evangelical any more. There's no more need to focus on praising the free-to-play thing, even if I do believe that it will be dominant [in the future]." The disappearance of that evangelical streak is more complex than it first appears. When van Husen talks about free-to-play now it's with a more measured tone, and his session at the MEGA Games Conference in Beirut, Lebanon is a case in point. Called "The Lemming Thinking," it advised developers not to charge towards the model like those suicidal rodents. In terms of free-to-play, the battle for the hearts and minds of developers has been won to such an extent that the market is both fiendishly difficult to crack and entirely unforgiving to those who make elementary mistakes. There is a vast ravine between the practical reality of free-to-play games and King's bottom line, and it is littered with companies who were too hasty in their approach. More than ever before it is vital that developers adhere to their most fundamental principles. "I advise you not to go looking for the free-to-play trend as a lemming, but understand that games must simply be fun," van Husen said to the assembled crowd of Middle Eastern and North African game developers, most of whom are working on platforms where free-to-play is entirely dominant. "If a game isn't good, you're screwed anyhow. Think of it as an additional task that you need to work on. Free-to-play should always add to the game experience, and unfortunately that's not always easy." Gameforge has always focused on more "ARPU rich" mid-core and hard-core games, a market that van Husen believes should be exempt from many of the difficulties associated with building a free-to-play business. Casual game developers, on the other hand, are meeting the most challenging issues head on, because they generally rely on a very small number of players for a large proportion of revenue – often as little as 0.5 per cent of the total user-base contributing more than 50 per cent of all sales. Casual developers need effective mechanisms to monetise those whales, but balancing that need against the enjoyment of the remaining 99.5 per cent of players is just one of many difficult problems associated with making the free-to-play model work for a casual market. "Personally, I'm pessimistic about casual games on mobile. I don't know how you can make a rational approach" "Personally, I'm pessimistic about casual games on mobile," van Husen says. "I don't know how you can make a rational approach on that. It's a lottery, I think. I mean, if you're Ilkka Paananen [founder and CEO of Supercell] then all due respect. If you do it three times it's not luck any more. But otherwise, if you're going in the same casual direction as King, I think it's a lottery." However, while that may be true, van Husen is very clear that this uncertainty has little to do with the free-to-play concept itself, and more to do with the the model's implementation. The difference with free-to-play is the speed with which so many line up to criticise it when any game makes mistakes. "When you observe that I see problems with the free-to-play model, I would also like to offer this in comparison," he says. "I have problems with games: with good games and bad games, with smart and stupid monetisation. If a series of bad shooters came out nobody would say that the whole FPS genre is worthless, so if a series of stupidly monetised free-to-play games comes out you can't say that this way of presenting games is worthless. I just don't see it. "We are beyond the need to behave like a secluded family protecting its castle. There are all sorts of business models out there." More importantly, there is also a broader variety of games. When Gameforge launched its first mobile titles in 2012 it gathered more than 20 million installs in 12 months, but the casual nature of the mobile audience was all too obvious. When I ask how much revenue those installs generated, van Husen answers with a shrug: "Not much." Certainly not enough to inspire Gameforge to pivot away from the core-focused PC games on which the company was built. But the mobile market is in the midst of a transition, with more and more console and PC players seeing smartphones and tablets as serious platforms for gaming. The emergence of hardcore mobile developers like Winko and Super Evil Megacorp. is evidence of that shift, and Gameforge is ready to capitalise on the opportunity with games like its ambitious role-playing game, Sigils: Battle for Raios. "We are beyond the need to behave like a family protecting its castle. There are all sorts of business models out there" Indeed, Sigils represents a major financial investment for Gameforge, in terms of both budget and development time. Of course, investments on that scale carry no small measure of risk, but van Husen compares it to the risk he took with Metin 2 all those years ago. Gambles like this, he says, are essential if you want to be a prime mover in a new market. As long as your riskiest plays are backed by quality products you needn't end up just another lemming,. "We believe that's exactly what's needed now," he says. "It's high risk, potentially high reward. But especially on tablets, there is demand for core gameplay that has not been satisfied. "In a very competitive marketplace quality is the only answer, the only strategy. You can always bet on luck, and if you're a VC and four years ago you put 20 stakes in different mobile games, then maybe luck makes it. But we're a company with 450 employees. We can't call that our strategy. "Our strategy is AAA quality, fully concentrating on the core with predominantly free-to-play games, but not necessarily always. That's a challenge." 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__label__wiki	0.760534	0.760534	Lukoil plans to double its investments in Iraq Shafaq News in Oil & Gas Iraqi government said that the Russian company Lukoil plans to double its investments in the extraction and petrochemical industries field in Iraq. Lukoil has developed West Qurna 2 field in Basra province in southern Iraq and expects to begin commercial production of oil early 2014, a little late form the previous deadline late 2013. Earlier this year, the company said that it will invest four billion dollars in the West Qurna-2, one of the giant fields in Iraq and the world, with reserves estimated at 12.9 billion barrels. "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki discussed during a meeting at his residence in Moscow, with the head of the Russian company Lukoil, ways to boost oil investments in the country," The government said in a statement received by "Shafaq News". Maliki discussed in Moscow, where he arrived yesterday, cooperation in the military and economic fields. Maliki said that Iraq seeks to increase its oil production, expand its industries , the establishment of oil refineries and encourage companies to increase their investments in these areas. He said that Lukoil Company is of the reliable companies that are respected by the Iraqi government and the Oil Ministry, welcoming efforts by the company to expand its investments in Iraq. The company has signed a 20 years contract to develop the West Qurna field – 2 in Basra in 2010. Lukoil share in West Qurna-2 has increased to 75 %, after the withdrawal of its Norwegian partner. The two companies won the contract to develop the field in 2009. West Qurna field is considered of giant fields in Iraq and the world, with reserves estimated at 12.9 billion barrels. The company agreed earlier this year with the Iraqi Oil Ministry to modify the terms of investment of West Qurna field (2), by reducing the production ceiling in the field, from 1.8 million to 1.2 million barrels per day. It was also agreed to increase the duration of peak production to 19.5 years instead of 13 years, as well as extending the duration of the contract from 20 to 25 years. Saudi PPPP 2014 to showcase latest technologies $1.33 billion loans to build new homes in Saudi Arabia	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line160
__label__cc	0.530719	0.469281	Destabilizing the Neighbourhood Maj Gen Harsha Kakar \| Date:03 May , 2019 0 Comments Imran Khan’s comments while on his visit to Iran opened a can of worms. He stated, ‘I know Iran has suffered from terrorism (perpetrated) by groups operating from Pakistan. …we (need to) have trust in each other that both countries will not allow any terrorist activity from their soil. We hope this will build confidence between us.’ He was referring to the two groups, JaishulAdl and Lashkar-i-Khorasan, which operate from Pak soil. These groups were responsible for the suicide attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards early this year which claimed 27 lives. Iran vowed revenge. The fact that Pak provides them support was well known, but the admission of the same by a head of state has informed the world that Pak supports terrorist groups. Earlier Nawaz Sharif had stated that the attackers of Mumbai were also launched from Pak. For this comment he was charged under sedition acts and the case is presently in progress.Musharraf has also made this statement on multiple occasions and has been accused of being anti-national. He has even claimed that despite an attempt on his life he could not act against them as they were protected by the deep state. Recently Imran had mentioned that there should be an interim government in Afghanistan to facilitate talks with the Taliban. He was echoing the words of the Taliban, which has refused to engage with the present Ashraf Ghani government. It angered Afghanistan, which recalled its ambassador for consultations, forcing Pak to issue a clarification. Imran also announced his intention to officially interact with the Taliban to which Afghanistan objected, leading to a cancellation of the meeting. Finally, to maintain neutrality, Imran stated that Pak is neutral in Afghanistan. Pak openly states that it has facilitated talks between the US and the Taliban, thereby proving that it has over the years supported them. With intense pressure being mounted from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pak has been forced to display that it is acting against terrorist leaders and groups within the country. It has also issued guidelines to implement the UN 1267 resolution on internationally nominated terrorists, located within the country. This admission by a Prime Minister indicates that Pak has and continues to support terrorist groups operating in neighbouring countries. India, Iran and Afghanistan have regularly blamed Pak for supporting terrorist groups. Terrorists who regularly attack, kidnap and kill Iranian border guards operate from Pakistan. The Taliban is based within the country. Anti-India terrorist groups are openly seeking funds for a Jihad in Kashmir. Interestingly, the opposition accused Imran of making an irresponsible statement. Comments in the Pak senate included, ‘No prime minister has ever made such a confession on foreign soil,’ and ‘Pakistan is exposed internationally by such statements.’ Clearly every Pak leader is aware but unwilling to admit. On the other hand, Pak complains of the involvement of other nations of supporting terrorist groups operating on their soil. The Pak foreign minister accused Iran, just prior to the visit of Imran, of supporting Baluch Separatist groups which launched the attack in Pak which killed 14 people. Surprisingly, just a day before the foreign minister’s announcement, the Pak foreign office spokesperson had blamed India for this incident. Pak visualizes RAW behind every door. India and Afghanistan are blamed for backing the TTP and the Baluch Freedom Fighters. They accuse Afghanistan of sheltering them, while claim that the Taliban is not based within Pak but in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan. They refuse to admit that those groups which operate against the Pak armydo so because of the maltreatment to non-Punjabi residents of their country, whom they consider as second-class citizens. Imran hoped that by making this statement, he could convince Iran to act against Pak terrorist groups, while they operate against Iran groups on their soil. Imran also proposed a meeting of security officials on the same. The Pak government defended his statement in the National Assembly by stating that the ‘IMF has already linked the bailout package for Islamabad with the findings of the FATF.’ It is evident that the Pak economy is now in doldrums. It desperately needs loans to just stay afloat. China and its West Asian allies cannot continue pumping in good money after bad, hence the only solution is a bail out package from the IMF. There are strings attached to this loan. Curbing terrorist activities is a major step. If Pak lands up into the ‘black list’ of the FATF, even the IMF loan is at risk. Further, it cannot meet the IMF condition of declaring all loans from China, as much has been consumed by the army leadership and politicians. The question arises that would this admission by Imran have any impact on the existing internal situation, despite him being a puppet of the army or in the term used by Pak media, ‘same page as the military leadership.’ In all probability the statement would not have been cleared by the army chief, as the foreign minister, SM Qureshi, accused Iran just a day before the visit of supporting anti-Pak terrorist groups. It is known that Qureshi is also backed by the army and could be a replacement for Imran in case the army drifts away from him. Further, with the ISI controlling all terrorist groups operating from Pak, it is unlikely that they would accept Imran’s statement and reduce their support to terrorist groups. They would just attempt to curb them for a short period before releasing them again to act against Iran. The Pak military establishment views maintaining and employing terrorist groups as a low-cost option of a successful state policy to keep their neighbours in flux. This reduces their requirement of maintaining a large deployed force and ensures their neighbours are involved militarily battling internal dissent. Hence, while Imran Khan’s comments have stirred a hornet’s nest within the country’s political leaders and he may gain international support, nothing will change on ground. Pak’s neighbours will need to consider acting in unison to enhance pressure of them to force a change in their approach. 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__label__wiki	0.52601	0.52601	American Airlines files for bankruptcy The parent company of American Airlines, AMR Corp., announced today that it has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. AMR said American Airlines, American Eagle and all other subsidiaries will honor all tickets and reservations and operate normal flight schedules during the bankruptcy filing process, using its $4.1 billion in cash. The airline also announced that Gerard Arpey, its chairman and CEO, is retiring. He is being succeeded by Thomas Horton, who was named president of the company in July 2010. Horton has insisted that American customers should see "business as usual" in spite of the bankruptcy. But he said that the cost disadvantage for American compared to other major U.S. carriers that have already gone though bankruptcies of their own since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks left it no choice. American has been widely seen as the weakest of the major airlines for some time now. It has reported a profit in only one quarter since 2007, and it lost $4.8 billion over those 3-1/2 years. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect its losses to continue through at least 2012. This theatre was built in the fifth century BCE and to accommodate the dramatists of the time. Famous plays such as Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles were performed here, among others by Greece’s most famous poets (including Aeschylus, Aristophanes and Euripides). The audience was seated on two types of seats depending on their rank, with the more privileged citizenry sitting in sections made of Pe... Eastern Gate Pagoda Also known as Chua Cau Dong; this magnificent, elaborately ornate temple is said to be nearly a thousand years old with some of its statues and dating back 400 years. ... Sao Bento Monastery This Norman-Byzantine style church was designed by a German architect and boasts a huge pipe organ with 6,000 pipes and an image of the Kasperovo Virgin that is adorned with 6,000 pearls from the Black Sea. Address : Largo de São Bento, Centro Tel : 011-3328-8799 Timings: - Weekdays 6am-6:30pm - weekends 6am-12pm and 4pm-6... Tehran isn’t too child-friendly overall but there are a few activities that would amuse and entertain the kids. There is the Tehran City Theatre which showcases performances of traditional Persian dances and plays that both children and adults enjoy. Performances are normally advertised in street signs and English language newspapers. Tehran has many beautiful parks and is one of the gr...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line164
__label__cc	0.619811	0.380189	You are at:Home»Latest Posts»Black Women Entrepreneurs in Harlem Get Support Center Black Women Entrepreneurs in Harlem Get Support Center By Victor Trammell on August 14, 2016 Latest Posts In Harlem, New York, a new initiative has been launched, which is designed to increase the number of African- American female business owners. According to DNAinfo.com, the Harlem Business Alliance recently started the Lilian Project, a program that seeks to help middle to low-income black women born in America get the opportunity to start their own businesses. The Lilian Project also received $300,000 from the W.K. Kellog Foundation in Michigan to help start this initiative. Gina Ramcharan, the director of the Lilian Project said that the big investment by the W.K. Kellog Foundation was not customary because the foundation usually deals with programs that have to do with the welfare of children. “Their focus is on children and the welfare of children in this country,” Ramcharan told DNAinfo. ““But one of the ways to help children out of poverty is to help their parents out of poverty,” she continued. The Lilian Project was designed to address the challenges that middle to low-income black women face when they want to become entrepreneurs. Ramcharan went on to explain how this new initiave would encourage black women to overcome these challenges. “This is about a community of black women charged to put the lives of other black women on a trajectory for success—women who may not have had the opportunity without this program,” Ramcharan said. The Lilian Project aims to turn 100 black women into the successful entreprenuers they’ve always dreamed of becoming by July 2018. This fall, 25 black female participants in the program will be selected to kick off The Lilian Project. “This is not a social venture, it is not a charity,” Ramcharan also said when describing the mission of The Lilian Project. “The end result for the participant will be a formal business plan and help with implementation,” she continued. Black women who are interested in applying to become participants in the Lilian Project will be able to do so through August 23rd. Source: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160811/east-harlem/harlem-business-alliance-launches-incubator-for-black-women-entrepreneurs Previous ArticleMeet the Black Athletes Who Have Been Destroying Their Competition at the Olympics Next Article NJ Women Are 2nd Most Unequally Paid; Black Women Fare Even Worse There	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line167
__label__cc	0.539944	0.460056	Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s commemoration speech on the 63rd anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight source: Cabinet Office Of The Prime Minister 23 October 2019, Budapest Honouable [former] President of the Republic, Honourable [former] Prime Minister, celebrating Hungarians around the world, within and beyond the borders, It is worthy and just that, as the closing chord of our national holiday, we should bow our heads to the Revolutionaries of ’56 here, at the Academy of Music. The 1956 Freedom Fight started the way our revolutions usually start. In our revolutions, the fuse would sometimes be lit by the words of a Petőfi or a Sinkovits, a performance by a young virtuoso pianist, a staging of Bánk bán, or the overture to an opera. At the Erkel Theatre Budapest on 22 October 1956, György Cziffra – who graduated from this music academy – played Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2. According to contemporary accounts, when he had played the last note, the applause from the audience was like an eruption of molten lava. Earlier the communists had smashed the bones in the hands of this young pianist, and then they forced him to break rocks in a stone quarry for three years. After his release he had to learn to play the piano again. Those who were there on that evening watching him perform knew that what they were seeing was not just a concert, but resurrection itself: a young artist’s resurrection and victory. It is no surprise that, brimming with enthusiasm, the audience of two thousand disciplined and order-loving citizens, connoisseurs of classical music, spilled out of the concert hall and onto the streets, and wherever they went they tore down from the walls every sign of communist outrage. Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Celebrants, When we think of the heroes of 1956, our first image is of young people: the lads and girls of Pest, who showed such overwhelming courage in raising their voices, their arms and their weapons against the occupiers and proconsuls. We recall their radiant faces, as they marched arm in arm through the streets of Budapest in that October spring. They were carried along by their youth, and they were carried along by the belief that they could turn around the fate of their homeland. They knew – or at least felt – that if the Soviet world were to continue, then there would be nothing left of Hungarian life. One thousand years of history would fade into nothing, and caustic red sludge would sweep away, corrode and consume everything: faith, culture, family, friends. It would overturn and cast to the winds everything that gives life meaning, and from which one can build a home and a homeland. Eleven years after the Second World War, every sane Hungarian – even those without a religious upbringing – knew that communism was the agent of chaos itself. They had to do something. So – in fire, in rags, orphaned, yet happy – they took up arms, because they saw that no other path was open to them. They did so with the resolve of one who is pushed to the edge of a precipice, knowing that there is nowhere to retreat to. There was only one path left: to fight for the land under their feet, the land that was still theirs. The minds of Hungarians – even those without a patriotic upbringing – were struck by a lightning flash of revelation: we Hungarians have just this one homeland. We have no other. We have no other place under the Sun: only this corner of the Earth is ours. Our dreams can only be conceived here, and only here in the Carpathian Basin can we achieve the great shared creation that we call Hungary and Hungarian culture. Sándor Márai wrote that the homeland is not made merely of earth and mountains, fallen heroes, the mother tongue, the bones of our ancestors in graveyards, bread and the landscape. No, it is we who are the homeland, from top to toe, body and soul: it gave us life; it will bury us; we experience and express it in all the moments of misery, elation, passion and boredom which together form the totality of our life. And our life is a moment in the life of our homeland. Sándor Márai was right – this is the reality. We are the homeland, all of us, from top to toe. This is the law. And it is also the law that there is a homeland only as long as there is someone to love it. There is a homeland only as long as there is someone to make a sacrifice for it. The law is that a homeland exists only where patriots exist; and the homeland will exist only for as long as there are more patriots than the combined numbers of collaborators, mercenaries in the pay of foreign forces and the Hungarian members of the international brigades of the day. Villainy will always form alliances; the question is whether patriots are prepared to combine their forces. As the poet Attila József taught us: “Conquer yourselves – first of all. Deal with the simplest thing: Join forces, so that, multiplied immensely, You may somehow find your way to God, who is infinity”. In October 1956 we joined forces. And once we had done so, we performed a miracle. We performed a miracle, and rose to heights never seen before. Today we are still sustained by this miracle. It is true, we have paid a high price for it, but Hungarian miracles never come cheap. Some three thousand people died during the conflict, two hundred and twenty-eight were executed, twenty thousand were imprisoned, and a hundred and seventy thousand fled the country. The freedom fighters of 1956 gave the most beautiful, the highest and the most precious thing one can sacrifice for their country. They gave their lives, they gave their freedom, they accepted exile: the bitter fruit of separation from one’s homeland. On 23 October 1956 the Hungarian nation demanded back its ancient right: it sought to freely decide how to live. And even back then we wanted for ourselves a Hungarian way of life: a European way of life. A free and independent Hungary in a Europe of nations. And in this there was no contradiction, because at that time the western half of Europe was still indeed the shared home of free nations. There is the ancient warning that not a single country, town or house that turns against itself can survive. Neither Europe nor Hungary can survive if it turns against itself, if it goes against everything that keeps it alive. It cannot survive if it turns against its own past and heroes. It cannot survive if it breaks with the honourable way of life created on the triple foundations of freedom, independence and Christian brotherhood, which made Europe – and Hungary within it – the most successful continent in world history. We must be grateful to our ancestors for the fact that our existence as Hungarians could grow through a long history of freedom fights which – despite all our shortcomings and moments of weakness – made us a great and noble people. Fellow Celebrants, The most hackneyed platitude in Hungarian political rhetoric is the phrase “a lesson from history”. But I believe that when we refer to the lessons of history we rarely stop to consider what we are talking about. These lessons do not mean the acquisition of some theoretical knowledge. On the contrary, they are highly practical. What’s more, the lessons of history always presume examinations. This is how it should be, because history is an ongoing challenge, a trial and an aptitude test. The fate of a people, the future of one nation or another, the survival or failure of one state or another, stands or falls on the answers, on whether the answers are correct or wrong. Yes, one can also fail these examinations. There are some who are held back, and then resit the exam; there are some who drop out of school – out of history altogether; and there are others who can go on to higher levels. Our ancestors gave a convincing and impressive historical account of themselves at decisive moments such as the conquest of the Carpathian Basin, the foundation of the state, the adoption and defence of Christianity, the Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1848-49, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, and the uprising against communist dictatorship and Soviet occupation. It is easy to take it for granted that we have a free and independent country called Hungary that is built upon noble ideals. But this country was not merely received as a gift: it did not fall into our laps, it was no easy ride, and we did not win it at the card table. How many peoples have existed in history? Thousands, surely. How many have succeeded in acquiring a home and keeping it to this day? Around two hundred. Hungary is among these two hundred – and it is not in the lower half. In the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian nation graduated to a higher level with a historic achievement of moral radiance that was felt around the world. We know – as many of us remember life in the old world – that the harsh reality of communism slowly consumes human dignity. Therefore, after a period of occupation what is left is emptiness, surrender and pettiness. But in this, too, we Hungarians are an exception. We have the generation of 1956 to thank for the fact that during the dark hours of history – even during the long years of Soviet occupation – we preserved our courage and were able to hold our heads high; this was because – even if only in secret – we had something and someone to be proud of. The heroes of 1956 were victorious because they bequeathed to us, their descendants, not human weakness, not self-doubt, but the greatness of courage and heroism. Although the young people of today have not lived – and luckily did not have to live – under the dictatorship of occupiers, I have no doubt that, should the need arise, today’s lads and girls of Pest would stand their ground just as gloriously as their grandparents did in 1956. Mariners know that they can safely steer a ship into port if they observe not only the water, but also the stars. Over the course of one thousand years, we Hungarians have learnt that on the waves of time we should fix our gaze not upon the changeable, not upon the transient, but always upon that which is permanent and enduring: upon God, homeland and family. Even today we could not choose a better guiding star. “The water runs on, and only the rock remains. The rock remains.” Gloria victis! Glory to the heroes! Viktor Orbáns Festrede zum 63. Jahrestag der Revolution und des Freiheitskampfes von 1956 Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech on the 62nd anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight Europe’s strength stemmed from nation states 1956 Hungarian Revolution october	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line172
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__label__wiki	0.657366	0.657366	America's Massive National Security State Is the 4th Branch of Government Who rules Washington? By Tom Englehardt Beaver County Peace Links via Tom Dispatch August 3, 2014 \| As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That’s bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it’s just not so. During the Cold War years and far more strikingly in the twenty-first century, the U.S. government has evolved. It sprouted a fourth branch: the national security state, whose main characteristic may be an unquenchable urge to expand its power and reach. Admittedly, it still lacks certain formal prerogatives of governmental power. Nonetheless, at a time when Congress and the presidency are in a check-and-balance ballet of inactivity that would have been unimaginable to Americans of earlier eras, the Fourth Branch is an ever more unchecked and unbalanced power center in Washington. Curtained off from accountability by a penumbra of secrecy, its leaders increasingly are making nitty-gritty policy decisions and largely doing what they want, a situation illuminated by a recent controversy over the possible release of a Senate report on CIA rendition and torture practices. All of this is or should be obvious, but remains surprisingly unacknowledged in our American world. The rise of the Fourth Branch began at a moment of mobilization for a global conflict, World War II. It gained heft and staying power in the Cold War of the second half of the twentieth century, when that other superpower, the Soviet Union, provided the excuse for expansion of every sort. Its officials bided their time in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union, when “terrorism” had yet to claim the landscape and enemies were in short supply. In the post-9/11 era, in a phony “wartime” atmosphere, fed by trillions of taxpayer dollars, and under the banner of American “safety,” it has grown to unparalleled size and power. So much so that it sparked a building boom in and around the national capital (as well as elsewhere in the country). In their 2010 Washington Post series “Top Secret America,” Dana Priest and William Arkin offered this thumbnail summary of the extent of that boom for the U.S. Intelligence Community: “In Washington and the surrounding area,” they wrote, “33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings -- about 17 million square feet of space.” And in 2014, the expansion is ongoing. In this century, a full-scale second “Defense Department,” the Department of Homeland Security, was created. Around it has grown up a mini-version of the military-industrial complex, with the usual set of consultants, K Street lobbyists, political contributions, and power relations: just the sort of edifice that President Eisenhower warned Americans about in his famed farewell address in 1961. In the meantime, the original military-industrial complex has only gained strength and influence. Increasingly, post-9/11, under the rubric of “privatization,” though it should more accurately have been called “corporatization,” the Pentagon took a series of crony companies off to war with it. In the process, it gave “capitalist war” a more literal meaning, thanks to its wholesale financial support of, and the shrugging off of previously military tasks onto, a series of warrior corporations. Meanwhile, the 17 members of the U.S. Intelligence Community -- yes, there are 17 major intelligence outfits in the national security state -- have been growing, some at prodigious rates. A number of them have undergone their own versions of corporatization, outsourcing many of their operations to private contractors in staggering numbers, so that we now have “capitalist intelligence” as well. With the fears from 9/11 injected into society and the wind of terrorism at their backs, the Intelligence Community has had a remarkably free hand to develop surveillance systems that are now essentially “watching” everyone -- including, it seems, other branches of the government. Think of Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who went over to the corporate side of the developing national security economy, as the first blowback figure from and on the world of “capitalist intelligence.” Thanks to him, we have an insider’s view of the magnitude of the ambitions and operations of the National Security Agency. The scope of that agency's surveillance operations and the range of global and domestic communications it now collects have proven breathtaking -- with more information on its reach still coming out. And keep in mind that it’s only one agency. We know as well that the secret world has developed its own secret body of law and its own secret judiciary, largely on the principle of legalizing whatever it wanted to do. As the New York Times's Eric Lichtblau has reported, it even has its own Supreme Court equivalent in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. And about all this, the other branches of government know only limited amounts and American citizens know next to nothing. From the Pentagon to the Department of Homeland Security to the labyrinthine world of intelligence, the rise to power of the national security state has been a spectacle of our time. Whenever news of its secret operations begins to ooze out, threatening to unnerve the public, the White House and Congress discuss “reforms” which will, at best, modestly impede the expansive powers of that state within a state. Generally speaking, its powers and prerogatives remain beyond constraint by that third branch of government, the non-secret judiciary. It is deferred to with remarkable frequency by the executive branch and, with the rarest of exceptions, it has been supported handsomely with much obeisance and few doubts by Congress. And also keep in mind that, of the four branches of government, only two of them -- an activist Supreme Court and the national security state -- seem capable of functioning in a genuine policymaking capacity at the moment. “Misleading” Congress In that light, let’s turn to a set of intertwined events in Washington that have largely been dealt with in the media as your typical tempest in a teapot, a catfight among the vested and powerful. I’m talking about the various charges and countercharges, anger, outrage, and irritation, as well as news of acts of seeming illegality now swirling around a 6,300-page CIA “torture report” produced but not yet made public by the Senate Intelligence Committee. This ongoing controversy reveals a great deal about the nature of the checks and balances on the Fourth Branch of government in 2014. One of the duties of Congress is to keep an eye on the functioning of the government using its powers of investigation and oversight. In the case of the CIA’s program of Bush-era rendition, black sites (offshore prisons), and “enhanced interrogation techniques” (a.k.a. torture), the Senate Intelligence Committee launched an investigation in March 2009 into what exactly occurred when suspects in the war on terror were taken to those offshore prisons and brutally interrogated. “Millions” of CIA documents, handed over by the Agency, were analyzed by Intelligence Committee staffers at a “secure" CIA location in Northern Virginia. Among them was a partial copy of a document known as the “Internal Panetta Review,” evidently a report for the previous CIA director on what the Senate committee might find among those documents being handed over to its investigators. It reportedly reached some fairly strong conclusions of its own about the nature of the CIA’s interrogation overreach in those years. According to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee head, this document was among the mass of documentation the CIA turned over -- whether purposely, inadvertently, or thanks to a whistleblower no one knows. (The CIA, on the other hand, claimed, until recently, that committee staffers had essentially stolen it from its computer system.) The Agency or its private contractors (intelligence capitalism strikes again!) reportedly worked in various ways to obstruct the committee’s investigation, including by secretly removing previously released documents from the committee's "secure" computer system. Nonetheless, its report was completed in December 2012 and passed on to the White House “for comment” -- and then the fun began. Though relatively few details about its specific contents have leaked out, word has it that it will prove devastating. It will supposedly show, among other things, that those “enhanced interrogation techniques” the CIA used were significantly more brutal than what was described to Congressional overseers; that they went well beyond what the “torture memo” lawyers of the Bush administration had laid out (which, mind you, was brutal enough); that no plots were broken up thanks to torture; and that top figures in the Agency, assumedly under oath, “misled” Congress (a polite word for “lied to,” a potential criminal offense that goes by the name of perjury). Senators knowledgeable on the contents of the report have repeatedly insisted that when it goes public, Americans will be shocked by its contents. Let’s keep in mind as well that committee head Feinstein was previously known as one of the most loyal and powerful supporters of the national security state and the CIA. Until recently, she has, in fact, essentially been the senator from the national security state. She and her colleagues, themselves shocked by what they had learned, understandably wanted their report declassified and released to the American people with all due speed. It naturally had to be vetted to ensure that it contained no names of active agents and the like. But two and a half years later, after endless reviews and a process of vetting by the CIA and the White House that gives the word “glacial” a bad name, it has yet to be released (though there are regular reports that this will -- or will not -- happen soon). During this time, the CIA seemed to go to Def Con 2 and decided to turn its spying skills on the committee and its staffers. Claiming that those staffers had gotten the Panetta Internal Review by “hacking” the CIA’s computers, it essentially hacked the committee’s computers and searched them. In the meantime, its acting general counsel, Robert Eatinger, who had been the chief lawyer for the counterterrorism unit out of which the CIA interrogation programs were run, and who was mentioned 1,600 times in the Senate report, filed (to quote Feinstein) a “crimes report to the Department of Justice on the actions of congressional staff -- the same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how CIA officers -- including the acting general counsel himself -- provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice about the program.” (Back in 2005, Eatinger had also been one of two lawyers responsible for not stopping the destruction of CIA videotapes of the brutal interrogations of terror suspects in its secret prisons.) In addition, according to Feinstein, CIA Director John Brennan met with her, lied to her, and essentially tried to intimidate her by telling her “that the CIA had searched a ‘walled-off committee network drive containing the committee’s own internal work product and communications’ and that he was going to ‘order further forensic evidence of the committee network to learn more about activities of the committee’s oversight staff.’” In other words, the overseen were spying upon and now out to get the overseers. And more than that, based on a single incident in which one of its greatest supporters in Congress stepped over the line, the Agency was specifically out to get the senator from the national security state. There was a clear message here: oversight or not, don’t tread on us. By the way, since the CIA is the injuring, not the injured, party, there is no reason to take seriously the self-interested words of its officials, past or present, on any of this, or any account they offer of events or charges they make. We’re talking, after all, about an outfit responsible for the initial brutal acts of interrogation, for false descriptions of them, for lying to Congress about them, for destroying evidence of the worst of what it had done, for spying on a Senate committee and its computer system, and for somehow obtaining “legally protected email and other unspecified communications between whistleblower officials and lawmakers this spring relating to the Agency and the committee’s report.” In addition, according to a recent front-page story in the New York Times, its former director from the Bush years, George Tenet, has been actively plotting “a counterattack against the Senate committee’s voluminous report” with the present director and various past Agency officials. (And keep in mind that “roughly 200 people under [Tenet’s] leadership [who] had at some point participated in the interrogation program” are still working at the Agency.) The Age of Impunity in Washington In December 2012, the report began to wend its way through a “review and declassification” process, which has yet to end. Once again, the CIA stepped in. The Senate was eager to declassify the report's findings, conclusions, and its 600-page executive summary. The CIA, which had already done its damnedest to block the Senate investigation process, now ensured that the vetting would be interminable. As a start, the White House vested the CIA as the lead agency in the review and vetting process, which meant that it was to be allowed to slow things to a crawl, stop them entirely, or alternatively remove crucial and damning material from the report via redaction. If you want a gauge of just how powerful the various outfits that make up the Fourth Branch have become in Washington (and what limits on them still remain), look no further. Fourteen years into the twenty-first century, we’re so used to this sort of thing that we seldom think about what it means to let the CIA -- accused of a variety of crimes -- be the agency to decide what exactly can be known by the public, in conjunction with a deferential White House. The Agency’s present director, it should be noted, has been a close confidant and friend of the president and was for years his key counterterrorism advisor. To get a sense of what all this really means, you need perhaps to imagine that, in 2004, the 9/11 Commission was forced to turn its report over to Osama bin Laden for vetting and redaction before releasing it to the public. Extreme as that may sound, the CIA is no less a self-interested party. And this interminable process has yet to end, although the White House is supposed to release something, possibly heavily redacted, as early as this coming week or perhaps in the dog days of August. Keep in mind again that we’re still only talking about the overwhelming sense of power of one of the 17 agencies that make up the Intelligence Community, which itself is but part of the far vaster national security state. Just one. Think of this, nonetheless, as a kind of litmus test for the shifting stateof power relations in the new Washington. Or think of it this way: on the basis of a single negative Senate report about its past operations, the CIA was willing to go after one of the national security state’s most fervent congressional supporters. It attempted to intimidate her, tried to bring charges against her staffers, and so drove her “reluctantly” and in a kind of desperation to the Senate floor, where she offered a remarkable denunciation of the agency she had long supported. In its wake, last week, the CIA director dramatically backed off somewhat, perhaps sensing that there was a bridge too far even in Washington in 2014. Amid Senate calls for his resignation, he offered an "apology" for the extreme actions of lower level Agency employees. (But don't hold your breath waiting for real reform at the CIA.) In her Senate speech, Feinstein accused the Agency of potentially breaching both the law and the Constitution. “I have grave concerns,” she said, “that the CIA’s search [of the committee’s computer system] may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution, including the Speech and Debate clause. It may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function... Besides the constitutional implications, the CIA’s search may also have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the CIA from conducting domestic searches or surveillance.” In the process, she anatomized an agency covering its tail and its trail, unwilling to admit to error of any sort or volunteer crucial information, while it attempted to block or even dismantle the oversight power of Congress. Her sobering speech should be read by every American, especially as it comes not from a critic but a perennial supporter of the Fourth Branch. In retrospect, this “incident” may be seen as a critical moment in the still-unsettled evolution of governing power in America. Her speech was covered briefly as a kind of kerfuffle in Washington and then largely dropped for other, more important stories. In the meantime, the so-called vetting process on the Senate report continued for yet more months in the White House and in Langley, Virginia, as if nothing whatsoever had occurred; the White House refused to act or commit itself on the subject; and the Justice Department refused to press charges of any sort. While a few senators threatened to invoke Senate Resolution 400 -- a 40-year-old unused power of that body to declassify information on its own -- it was something of an idle threat. (A majority of the Senate would have to agree to vote against the CIA and the White House to put it into effect, which is unlikely indeed.) Whatever happens with the report itself and despite the recent CIA apology, don’t expect the Senate to bring perjury charges against former CIA leaders for any lies to Congress. (It didn’t do so, after all, in the earlier case of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.) And don’t expect prosecutions of significant figures from a Justice Department that, in the Obama years, refused to prosecute even those in the CIA responsible for the deaths of prisoners. The fact is that, for the Fourth Branch, this remains the age of impunity. Hidden in a veil of secrecy, bolstered by secret law and secret courts, surrounded by its chosen corporations and politicians, its power to define policy and act as it sees fit in the name of American safety is visibly on the rise. No matter what setbacks it experiences along the way, its urge to expand and control seems, at the moment, beyond staunching. In the context of the Senate’s torture report, the question at hand remains: Who rules Washington? Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s as well as The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. 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__label__wiki	0.540242	0.540242	Home \| Contact \| Donor Login \| in conversation: strategic philanthropy Part-time residents of Dutchess County for over three decades, Russ and Judy Carson generously support a range of interests through their family trust. We sat down with Russ to discuss how good luck, hard work and resolve have helped shape their ideas about giving. You went to public high school in Toledo. My parents moved to Toledo during World War II, and I spent my early years there. I came east to Dartmouth College, then I went to Columbia Business School. When I arrived, it was the second time in my life I had ever set foot in New York City. One of the reasons I went to Columbia was to see whether I liked living in a big city. My expectation was that I'd stay maybe five years after I graduated, hopefully get a good job, build a skill and then go back to the Midwest. And here I am 50 years later. I've really become a New Yorker, but for years when people asked, "Where are you from?" I'd say, "Toledo." Describe the Toledo of your youth. It was a good Midwestern experience, good Midwestern values. My dad ran the largest insurance company in town, and then he moved to running the largest bank in town. He and my mother were always involved in philanthropic activities. That's part of the reason I got interested in philanthropy as I got further along in my career. My parents had set a very good example for me. Talk a little bit about your own family. I met my wife in New York, and we've been married for 45 years. She has been a perfect partner. She has a big heart and likes to be active in things. We have two kids. Our daughter lives in Manhattan, and our son lives out in Brooklyn. We're pleased our kids have turned out just the way we would want. They're very sensitive about other people, and sensitive about needs of the community. And when the kids were young, you found Millbrook. We did. We decided we wanted to give the kids more exposure to the outdoors. We looked at two alternatives: a primary residence in Westchester or in Connecticut, or buying a second home. The first weekend we looked at buying a primary residence. I tell the story that one kid threw up in the car of the real estate agent who was showing us around, and the other kid threw up in our car on the way home, which put a bit of a damper on that whole idea. The second time, we went without the kids and came on Millbrook at the end of the day. We looked at four properties, and by the time the week was out we had a deal. And how did you plug into the community? Millbrook was a very interesting community when we arrived. Bennett College had been the primary employer in town. It had gone out of business in the 70s, and as a result the population took a big hit. It was sort of at the bottom of the economic cycle when we first came and it's obviously been a very resilient community. It's come back dramatically. At any rate, the fact that it was a small community made it pretty easy to find and get to know other people. At some point, you got to know people associated with Berkshire Taconic and began talking about needs in the community. For a long time I honestly didn't want to be involved because I was working very hard. I had started a business in the city. I was spending a lot of time on that, so I basically wanted the weekends free. But we slowly began to get involved. We have 200 acres of land that require upkeep and maintenance. And the people working on the property were really hard-working, very decent people. A good number don't speak English, and it was clear that there was a growing immigrant community who were doing a lot of important jobs in Millbrook. My supposition, which was supported by things I read, was that people had needs that weren't being addressed. It's very hard to be an immigrant and come to a country where you don't speak the language natively. It's difficult to get around, difficult to find a job. Once you have a job, it's difficult to upgrade from the job that you have. That led to getting involved with the foundation. The first gift we made was part of a challenge grant. And then we started talking together about this idea: We're living a very good life here. How can we help? The foundation came back to us with the idea of employing to social workers that would help connect low-income people in the community with services available to them. And that really resonated with us, so my family and I have been funding the program [NED Corps] ever since. We think it's done exactly what we were hoping it would do. We could've just given money to one charity. I think this has a much bigger impact. It connects people with services that are already available, as opposed to trying to create a new service. And it deals directly with whatever the specific needs may be, whether it's housing, food or education. Is there a thread that connects the elements of your philanthropy? One thing that's very clear in life is that some of us have been very lucky. I don't think I'm the smartest guy in the world; I've been very lucky. I think you come to a realization that there's something bigger in life than just you, and if you have been lucky, you feel an obligation to share that. And to the extent that you can help others realize the dream of a better life, it's very satisfying, but it's also necessary in the community. You can't afford to have a divided community of haves and havenots, where there's no feeling of community between the two. One of our conclusions about philanthropy is that we've done very well, but we can't solve the world's problems. We can't solve the problem of AIDS, or hunger in Africa, or other things. The way we can be most helpful is to focus on the communities we live in. By concentrating our resources in a more limited way, we can actually make a difference. Do you think people are born generous? I think so much of it comes from the way you're brought up. My parents were always strongly socially conscious. They didn't talk about it that much at home, but it's something that seems into you. I can remember when I graduated from Dartmouth College, the next year I went to Columbia Business School. I think I sent a check for ten dollars to Dartmouth (laughs). I've sent some much bigger checks since then, but I think it was what my parents had ingrained in me. And as Judy and I approach the end of our lives, it's very meaningful to us to be able to give something back. Do you think people who have success have a special obligation to give back? It's something I've thought a lot about. I think everybody needs to make that decision for themselves. Are you going through life with the purpose of hoarding and accumulating things? Or are you going through life trying to make your own life enjoyable, and also trying to help those who need help? If you could encourage others to find a way to have the meaningful impact you're having, what would you say? I think we want to have an inclusive community. We want people in the community to have decent lives. And everybody's definition of a decent life is different, but everybody ought to care about their neighbors. And your neighbors include not only the people that own the land next to you, but the people that are working on the land or working in the town. I think Millbrook is a very generous community. I also think the Northeast Dutchess Fund is an ideal way for people to be able to contribute financial resources that can be professionally directed to where the need is greatest. There was a desire on our part to do something in the community, but we needed the education in terms of what could we do. And if it weren't for Berkshire Taconic, we wouldn't have been exposed to understanding what was going on in the community. To their credit, they came to us with the perfect solution. The trick in philanthropy is matching the right donor with the right project, and I give them a lot of credit for doing that. So I would hope that other people would take advantage of that opportunity, to the extent that they have repressed giving urge. Get some outside help in terms of trying to figure out what is it you care about and what can you do about it. Your accomplishments are well-known. Much of your work and life remain ahead of you - (laughing) I'm 72 years old. I'm not sure how long they remain ahead of me. How do you think others will remember you? I'd say at the end of the day I would like people to think of me as somebody who is a thoughtful, generous person within his community, whether the community be New York City or Millbrook. Somebody who cared enough to try and make a difference. 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__label__wiki	0.578658	0.578658	Save Money Everyday Get tips and tricks to help you save money on your everyday expenses, from getting a cheaper cup of coffee to snagging hotel discounts. Is it time to buy gold (again)? Posted by perdegree_efr3tq on July 24, 2020 Whenever the world feels like it’s falling apart, the gold bugs emerge from their months-long hibernation, and buzz about telling anyone with ears about why the yellow metal is going to save us all. While you don’t see as many “sell your gold” commercials anymore, the bugs are out there, trying to convince everyone that the U.S government is on the verge of collapse and that fiat currency will soon be a thing of the past. Unfortunately, some of the hysterics around gold cloud the real, and ongoing, debate as to whether a little gilt can do a portfolio good. Since the pandemic started wreaking havoc on markets in February, gold has risen by 13.2%, from $1,648 to $1,865 an ounce, according to S&P Capital IQ, while the S&P 500 is down 1.3%. If we look at how gold has performed since March 23, the market’s trough, gold doesn’t look quite as good: it’s up 20% compared to the S&P 500’s 46% gain. Yet, with a lot of uncertainty still ahead—COVID-19 cases are still rising (in Canada, too) and a U.S. election on the horizon—a lot of investors are wondering whether gold is right for them. A different kind of asset class Gold has always been one of the more fascinating asset classes out there. It’s a commodity, but it’s not used in a lot of stuff other than jewellery, which means its price doesn’t follow typical supply and demand cycles. (Silver is used in a variety of technologies, and so prices can rise when, say, demand for semiconductors in a new model phone is high.) It’s considered a store of value; it doesn’t depreciate and it can always be traded for goods, so it’s a favourite asset among those who think currencies will devalue or that inflation will run amok. Really, the price gains and losses come down to how people feel about the world. When sentiment is bearish, gold does well, and vice-versa. (In the lead-up to the recession and its aftermath—November 2008 to September 2011—gold climbed by 156%.) A lot of people are excited about gold today because of how much debt countries around the world are accumulating at the same time. Canada’s debt is expected to rise to a mind-blowing $1.2 trillion, while the U.S. has racked up more than $25 trillion in debt. The more leverage these countries take on, the more concern there is about currency devaluation. If you keep printing money to spend on pandemic-related programs or to buy your own bonds to help keep markets liquid (called quantitative easing), then your money starts to lose its value. If currencies devalue, gold starts looking more attractive since it’s worth what it’s worth. The counterargument is that in today’s world currencies can’t really devalue because everyone’s doing the same debt-accumulating thing. As well, it’s all relative to the U.S. dollar; if our currency falls it’s usually because the greenback strengthened. If the USD does fall, then all the countries that export to the U.S., such as Canada, will see their currencies rise, which will then harm exports and their economies, and ultimately cause their currencies to decline. People are also worried about long-term inflation, with a lot of experts thinking that all the economic stimulus that has been pumped into the market will cause prices to rise. Typically, gold climbs along with inflation. With consumer spending down thanks to quarantine, though, it’s likely inflation will remain muted for a while. Buy in or stay away? So, should you buy an asset class that isn’t connected to supply and demand fundamentals, that moves on people’s emotions and that may do well if inflation rises and currencies devalue, but may not if neither of things happen? I asked Paul Harris, founder of Harris Douglas Asset Management, who said, essentially, that it depends on your view of the world. “I think gold has a place in a portfolio if you really think the world is massive disarray,” he says. A lot of people like owning at least some gold because it can act as a portfolio diversifier—experts typically recommend between 5% and 10%. If the markets fall, gold does tend to go up, which then balances out your losses. However, Harris says that most people don’t hold enough gold for it to make a difference. (If you own 80% stocks, he points out that holding 5% in gold won’t do a whole lot.) If you really think that the world will continue to go sideways for a while, that rising cases could shut down economies and that governments will keep spending, then owning some gold could be helpful as the precious metal should rise. In June, Goldman Sachs revised its 12-month gold price forecast to $2,000 an ounce, up from $1,800, saying, “We believe that debasement fears remain the key driver of gold prices in a post-crisis environment such as this.” Harris adds that owning gold now could be a good thing because interest rates are so low. One knock against the metal is that it doesn’t offer a distribution, but now, with rates so low, you can’t earn anything in bonds. So you’re not losing out on any potential income by owning it, he says. While Harris doesn’t own gold—he doesn’t think inflation will get out of control or that currencies will devalue—he can understand why someone might want to own some. However, when it comes down to deciding what to buy, he suggests sticking with the actual metal, which you can get by purchasing GLD, an ETF from SPDR that invests into actual gold. Gold companies are much riskier to own as many other things factor into their stock price. While they do tend to do better than the price of gold on the way up—the S&P Commodity Producers Gold Index has climbed by 85% since March 23—they tend to be poorly run companies that operate in difficult parts of the world. As soon as the price turns, these businesses usually fall hard. And that is the difficult aspect to owning gold overall. Just as quickly as people can become bullish on the commodity, they can turn on it, too. If economies start improving, if a vaccine is found sooner than later, if the world doesn’t feel like it’s going to end, then the gold bugs, and the gold price, will retreat. 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__label__wiki	0.738989	0.738989	FDA puts back decision on Takeda's new diabetes drugs Takeda Pharmaceutical Co is going to have to wait a bit longer to get US approval for its type 2 diabetes therapy alogliptin, and the fixed-dose combination of the drug plus the Japanese drugmaker's Actos. The company says it has received notification from the US Food and Drug Administration that its review of alogliptin, and the combination of the latter and Actos (pioglitazone) will be delayed. A new Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date has been set for April 25, having been originally assigned for January 25. Takeda gave no details about the reasons for the delay and David Recker, head of clinical science at the firm's global R&D centre in the USA, said that "we will work closely with the FDA to determine the appropriate next steps". He added that "we are dedicated to continuing our efforts to bring these important therapies to market in the USA." Takeda resubmitted two New Drug Applications to the FDA in July, after receiving a complete response letter in June 2009. The refiling included interim data from a cardiovascular outcomes trial, titled EXAMINE. The NDA for alogliptin, a selective dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-4) inhibitor was originally submitted in December 2007, a year before the FDA issued fresh guidelines for diabetes drugs. Nevertheless the agency had rejected the drug saying existing data was not sufficient to meet requirements outlined in the new guidance. Alogliptin was approved in April 2010 by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and is sold under the brand name Nesina. The fixed-dose combination got the green light in Japan in July this year and is available as Liovel. Takeda to get verdict on new diabetes drugs by end-January Takeda resubmits NDA for new diabetes drug alogliptin http://www.takeda.com	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line184
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__label__wiki	0.936329	0.936329	World Merkel promises firm action after 'intolerable' Cologne assaults Merkel promises firm action after 'intolerable' Cologne assaults BERLIN - Friday, January 08, 2016 09:26 Email Print Germany identifies 3 suspects in New Year attacks on women in Cologne Germans shaken by New Year attacks on women in Cologne German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint news conference with Romania's Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to respond decisively to assaults on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve which have stoked a fierce debate about her refugee policies after police said the attackers appeared to be of foreign origin. Some 121 women are reported to have been robbed, threatened or sexually molested there by gangs of mostly drunk men between 18 and 35 years old while out celebrating. Police say they have identified 16 suspects. Cologne's police chief, under pressure for the force's handling of the event, has said the perpetrators appeared to be of "Arab or North African" origin. German magazine Focus and newspaper Die Welt said police had found registration papers on some of the suspects, suggesting they had only recently arrived in the country. But authorities have not confirmed that. Merkel, whose support slipped last year when she resisted pressure to impose caps on refugees, insisting Germany could cope with the 1.1 million migrants who arrived in 2015, said the events were "completely unacceptable" and "intolerable". A TV satellite uplink vehicle stands in front of the main railways station of Cologne, Germany January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay "There are some very serious questions which arise from what has happened which have relevance beyond Cologne," she said, including establishing whether there are common patterns of behavior by some groups of people who do not respect women. She said she would consider changing the law, boosting police numbers and making sure the deportation system was effective. She added that "cultural coexistence" must be continually discussed. "We have a duty to give the right answers," she said. Germans have been shocked by the attacks, which are reported to have taken place on a smaller scale in other cities including Hamburg. A poll for broadcaster ARD showed that 30 percent of those surveyed said they would avoid big crowds because of the events in Cologne. Similar events may have taken place in other countries. Finnish police say they received information that assaults had been planned on women at new year. In Switzerland, about six women have reported being sexually molested and robbed during New Year's Eve celebrations in Zurich after being surrounded by groups of men. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker arrives for a news conference in Cologne, Germany, January 5, 2016. About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at the New Year's celebrations outside Cologne's cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, police said on Tuesday. One woman said she was raped. Police and witnesses have said about 1,000 men, split into groups, attacked women in the square. Some witnesses said the men were of North African appearance, stirring strong emotions in Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed people fleeing war zones in the Middle East and Africa. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay The ARD poll also showed 57 percent of those asked wanted to bring back border controls, up 12 points from September. Right-wing parties in Germany, including the Alternative for Germany (AfD), have jumped on the events to renew calls for a limit on the number of refugees allowed into Germany and for Merkel to close the country's border. Top-selling daily Bild published excerpts of a report from a policeman on duty in Cologne on New Year's Eve which was later confirmed as accurate by police. One man is reported to have grinned as he ripped up his residency permit and told a policeman: "You can't do anything to me. I'll just pick up another one tomorrow." Another is reported to have said: "I'm Syrian. You need to be nice to me. Frau Merkel invited me here." German weekly Die Zeit contrasted the violence in Cologne with the feel-good scenes in Munich four months ago when locals greeted arriving refugees with cheers, food and blankets. Even if there was no proof the attackers were recent arrivals, the newspaper said that what happened seemed to confirm the fears of some Germans that young men were coming into the country who were violent, disdainful of women and prepared to ignore German laws. "Cologne is a tipping point. Policy toward refugees must not be reinvented because of these assaults. But can only be sold successfully if the rule of law is defended with determination," the paper wrote. More : Germany Angela Merkel Cologne New Year's Eve refugees Britain's Libya intervention flawed, ex-PM Cameron to blame: lawmakers "The UK’s actions in Libya were part of an ill-conceived intervention, the results of which are still playing out today." 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__label__wiki	0.629442	0.629442	You are here: Home / Archives for robert redford Lions for Lambs August 5, 2009 By Simon R. Leave a Comment Robert Redford is one of the most distinguished individuals in Hollywood today: his decades-spanning film acting career includes such classic titles as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The President’s Men, and Out of Africa. As a director he has produced indelible works like Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, and The Horse Whisperer. He even played an instrumental role in founding Sundance Film Festival the annual indie-movie showcase named after his role in Butch Cassidy. Lions for Lambs, his most recent project which directed and in which he starred, is an intriguing film that explores many facets of the War on Terror as seen through roughly intertwining vignettes involving a Republican senator and a liberal interviewer, a college professor and his young mush-minded pupil, and two students-turned-soldiers who are on the front lines of a new attack strategy masterminded by the senator. While the acting and direction are top-notch, perhaps the film’s most impressive quality is its restraint, as Redford deeply explores many sides of a complicated issue instead of using the hour and twenty minute running time to grind a particular political axe. It’s classic Robert Redford: classy. When this movie came out I was surprised at how little attention it got from the general public. Having watched it this week, though, I think I can understand why: Lions for Lambs is not exactly entertaining per se, and it’s also a tricky premise to sell to an audience (especially an audience that has catapulted drivel like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen into the box office stratosphere) because of the multi-faceted approach to telling its story. The action unfolds in real time as senator Jasper Irving, played by Tom Cruise who looks and acts like the all-growed-up version of his Daniel Kaffe character in A Few Good Men, is being interviewed by journalist Janine Roth, played by Meryl Streep. She gets him to spill the beans about a new strategy for finally winning the War –a plan that is being put into action in Afghanistan as they speak, and involves two young soldiers who get separated from the rest of their platoon. The two soldiers just happen to be former students of professor Stephen Malley–Robert Redford in a role that feels as natural as any he has ever played, if a bit more passionate at times. Malley is, at the same time this is all going on, trying to knock some real-world sense into one of his students (young actor Andrew Garfield, channeling a healthy dose of Judd Nelson’s character from The Breakfast Club), using his former students as examples of true courage and conviction, even though he personally disagrees with their decision to join the military. The movie isn’t so much a story as it is an exploration of a political topic. And yet, despite the intensely political nature of the film, it never gets preachy. The characters come across as passionate but not informed and far from their stereotypical raving counterparts in so many movies today. There are no easy answers to the solution to the War, and the viewpoints expressed by the various characters are thoughtful and reasonable as opposed to ideological diatribes. Several express regret over past mistakes, and the media at large is even taken to task for its role in ramping up the hype for the War years ago. However, all this serves as an interesting essay or PBS debate, but it does not serve to make the most engaging movie. For all that I appreciate about Lions for Lambs, it does boil down to little more than 80 minutes of dialog, and the disconnected nature of the plot keeps it from being in the same league as movies like Frost/Nixon. There is no main character to follow, no central storyline other than the peril of the two stranded soldiers, and the conflict rests mainly in the minds of the audience rather than the characters. But it’s a fine film overall, especially for people who are looking for a more thoughtful approach to politics in their movies. Rating: 3.0/5 (1 vote cast) Filed Under: Drama, War Tagged With: robert redford, tom cruise, war on terror Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 By Matt V Leave a Comment The final bout between good and evil in J.K. Rowling’s majestic universe comes to a close after eight films. With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 there isn’t much need for an in-depth criticism on the final movie (or half-movie). Rather I am provided a welcome opportunity to reflect on the series as […] By Simon R. 2 Comments With 2000’s X-Men, director Bryan Singer reassured moviegoers who grew disenchanted after years of mediocre schlock like Batman and Robin, The Punisher, and Howard the Duck, that comic book movies could be fantastical and far-fetched while still remaining firmly grounded in reality. Singer’s cast of mutants were portrayed as real humans with true-to-life struggles common […] Yes, I endured ‘Bruno’, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest character creation to hit cinemas. 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__label__wiki	0.561779	0.561779	Howls Moving Castle Papercraft Book Description This is a paper craft book. From the newest Studio Ghibli film, "Howl's Moving Castle", Kodansha brings us an actual papercraft model of the magical moving castle itself! Sankei Studio Ghibli mini Princess Mononoke Hime San and wild dog scale papercraft MP out of 5 stars 5. $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Appeared Ghibli film "Howl's Moving Castle" from Howl of the castle in Miniatuart kit! Only assembled delicately overlaid paste the hard paper that has been laser-cut, miniature can make /5(10). Aug 07, · Howl’s Moving Castle is a unique tale where various locations are accessed through a certain doorway in Howl’s Castle. The castle travels randomly about, propelled by magic. After being cursed by a witch, Sophie, a young girl, finds herself in a ninety-year old body/5(K). The amazing studio ghibli published a papercraft book in that you could cut apart to make howls moving castle. 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It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and it won the Phoenix Award twenty years later, recognising its rise from relative obscurity. Howl's Moving Castle - Kodansha - Papercraft Model. By Studio Ghibli · Updated about 7 years ago. Public. The Instructions are all in japanese, but its pretty straight forward to create. Please post your work if you decide to give it a go. ~Ryan Update Files have been uploaded to my Google Drive. Howls Moving Castle Papercraft 72h worktime Download the PDF Here ;) Original Book Version from the Video: xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai Sep 25, · Label: howl's moving castle papercraft, howl's moving castle papercraft book, howl's moving castle papercraft english instructions, howl's moving castle papercraft pdf. Rabu, 07 November Howls Moving Castle Papercraft English Instructions. 06hmc Howl S Moving Castle Chateau Ambulant V2 Instructions. Damn that looks good. I have the papercraft book of Howl's Moving Castle where the pattern is from; it was a gift from a very generous person, but to my eternal shame, I've never even tried it. It just intimidated me. Apr 18, · While “Howl’s Moving Castle” is probably best known as a movie, it was a book first. In fact, it was a pretty fantastic book. Movoto’s brilliant infographic designer, whose handiwork you see above, swears by it. In a nutshell, the fantasy book revolves around Sophie, a young hat maker who is transformed into a old woman. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye. Dec 20, · Howl's Moving Castle Papercraft - Duration: dumpling 17, views. The Immersive Realism of Studio Ghibli - Duration: Asher Isbrucker Recommended for you. Howl's Moving Castle Papercraft The amazing Studio Ghibli published a papercraft book in that you could cut apart to make Howl's Moving Castle. Ben Millett managed to find a digital copy and printed it out. It took him 72 hours over three weeks to build this enormous papercraft. Jones, Diana Wynne - Howl's Moving xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai Howl's Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones 1: in which Sophie talks to hats In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Sep 19, · Jones’ novel won the Phoenix Award for best children’s book ina year after the film’s premiere, when book sales for Howl’s Moving Castle far exceeded when it first released. After. Book Accessories Children's Books Art & Photography Books Papercraft Visual Arts Sculpting & Forming Well you're in luck, because here they come. There are 31 howls moving castle ring for sale on Etsy, and they cost $ on average. Share what you know and love through presentations, infographics, documents and more. Turnip-Head is a cursed scarecrow who appears in both the book and movie versions of Howl's Moving Castle. In both appearances, he is a scarecrow on two cross poles wearing torn clothing with a withering turnip for a head. However, he plays a much different role in the two versions. Turnip-Head is not named in the book, only referred to as "the scarecrow." In his first appearance, Sophie talks. Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in by Greenwillow Books of New York. It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award[3] and it won the Phoenix Award twenty years later, recognizing its rise from relative obscurity.[4] In it was adapted as an animated film of the same name, which was nominated for the. Howls Moving Castle Printable Coloring Sheet Printable instant digital download coloring page. It is highly recommended printing this image on an 8 1/2 x 11 paper. It is also recommended to set your printer settings on high quality to make the digital image crisp and select fit to page. The Castle Series is the name of the series of books that follow the lives of Howl Jenkins Pendragon, Sophie Hatter, their Fire Demon Calcifer, and their Moving xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai of the books are written by Dianne Wynn Jones. Howl's Moving Castle. Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel to be written in the series. Published init follows the story of a young woman who leaves her life of near. Oct 27, - The amazing Studio Ghibli published a papercraft book in that you could cut apart to make Howl's Moving Castle. Ben Millett managed to find a digital copy and printed it out. It took him 72 hours over three weeks to build this enormous papercraft. Please enjoy all the pictures of this incredible papercraft and a t. Seeking refuge in the dread Howl’s castle, she finds unlikely allies, and friends, in the sorcerer, his fire demon, and a lovesick apprentice, who help Sophie realize she has the power to decide her own fate. Full of the same magic and music that you loved before, re-enter this fantastical world for a new experience with a Book-It favorite. Howl’s Moving Castle is based on a British fantasy novel by author Diana Wynn Jones, the first in her trilogy of books featuring the eponymous wizard Howl, a powerful, mercurial, and vain. Howl. The one big, strange fact about Howl is that almost every young woman who reads about him wants The Witch of the Waste. We know from the first chapter of Howl's Moving Castle that the Witch of the Waste is going to be Miss Angorian. In our analysis of the Witch of the Waste elsewhere in this section, we said that the Witch is. May 25, · The Howl’s Moving Castle papercraft by Ben Millet is an exact replica of that house from the movie, and what’s awesome about it is that the whole castle is made out of paper! Check out the video and see how Ben Millet made this awesome castle! May 22, · Like Howl’s Moving Castle, Dealing With Dragons takes common fairy tale elements and turns them on their head. This delightful book takes your usual princess, but instead of waiting for her knight or prince to rescue her from the dragon well, she runs away to live with the dragon!. Becoming a dragon’s princess sounds like way more fun to headstrong and independent Cimorene than staying. And Howl later admits that he knows that Calcifer is his weak point—he'll never tattle on another fire demon, not even one as evil as Miss Angorian. Mrs. Pentstemmon also says, "Demons do not understand good and evil" (). But while Calcifer may not be the most reliably good character in the book, he's still deeply likeable. The thing. Howl's Moving Castle (Japanese: ハウルの動く城, Hepburn: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) is a Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by British author Diana Wynne xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai film was produced by Toshio Suzuki, animated by Studio Ghibli and distributed by xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai Japanese voice cast featured Chieko. Beyond-the-Book Events Conversations that both illuminate Book-It’s production of Howl’s Moving Castle, a New Musical and act as catalysts for deeper exploration of the book’s themes. Front Row Center with KUOW’s Marcie Sillman. Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) is a Animated Adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai was directed by Hayao Miyazaki and made at Studio Ghibli, which accounts for the many lovely visuals in the xn--c1ajbkbpbbduqca7a9h1b.xn--p1ai, instead of a Medieval European Fantasy, the land of Ingary is a Steampunk/Gaslamp Fantasy world filled with both technology and. Apr 25, · Would you? It’s quite a papercraft project. It’s been done! Check out this imgur gallery for the full collection. There’s a sample below. This is a good year to be remembering Howl’s Moving Castle. Some Geek Native readers may know it only as Hayao Miyazaki‘s anime. However, before that, it was a Diana Wynne Jones book. Sadly, we lost. Howl’s Moving Castle was written by Diana Wynne Jones in that was later adapted into a (wonderful) movie by Hayao Miyazaki. The trailer shows the castle in action. Here’s the top. Howl Moving Castle is a Japanese animated (Anime) movie about a girl who is cursed with spell that turns her old by daytime. She was cursed by another witch jealousy over a handsome wizard. To find cure and avoid confrontation, the girl went to look for the wizard and ended up inside Howl’s Moving Castle. Howl's Moving Castle - Papercraft. I thought this would be the toughest papercraft I've ever done, but actually, it was much easier than the V for Vendetta fail, lol. The flying version of Howl's Moving Castle was also very difficult, because of missing parts and japanese instructions. But this one everything was numbered/labeled nicely and most of the time, I didn't need to look at the instructions at all. A quietly accomplished book that became a bestseller Although beloved by those familiar with Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle remained largely under the mainstream radar until the book was adapted into an animated film by the world-famous Studio Ghibli. Needless to say, Howl's Moving Castle is a richly imagined fantasy story. Jones has created a world that is a-plenty both in politics and magic, making for a riveting read. Furthermore, the majority of the novel takes place in the moving castle of Wizard Howl himself. An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a " floppy disk. Software. An illustration of two photographs. Howl's Moving Castle English Dub Movies Preview. 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__label__wiki	0.958875	0.958875	ARIA SINGLES OF THE DECADE 2010-19 4therecordcomau January 21, 2020 Uncategorized Somebody That I Used To Know (W de Backer) – Gotye ft. Kimbra 2011 Wouter “Wally” De Backer was born in Bruges (Belgium) in 1980, and two years later his family emigrated to Australia, ultimately settling in the Melbourne suburb of Montmorency. He took the name Gotye, a pronunciation respelling of the word Gauthier, and showed aptitude for drums and piano, he and three high school buddies formed a garage band known as Downstares, which included bassist Lucas Taranto (below), who still accompanies Gotye at live performances. De Backer’s parents relocated to a new home on the Mornington Peninsula south-east of Melbourne, but he remained in residence at his parent’s Montmorency property while completing his Arts degree at Melbourne University. His early musical influences were Sting, Depeche Mode and Peter Gabriel and in 2011 he expressed his passion for sampled music and riff-pilfering with his self-produced debut 4-track CD which included the single Out Here In The Cold. De Backer would have been aware of the earlier efforts of fellow Melbourne techno geeks, Robbie Chater, Darren Seltman, and Tony Di Blasi, better known as the Avalanches, who had stunned fans with their landmark album Since I Left You in 2001, which was a brilliant example of the then arcane art of plunderphonics, and was an international hit. De Backer circulated copies of his CD to radio stations and while he received positive feedback, there was no commercial outcome, he formed a duo with singer/songwriter Kris Schroeder called The Basics and they landed a contract with Creative Vibes, the album Boardface was released in 2003, again there was a positive critical response but no chart action. Between 2003-05 De Backer worked on his new solo album, Like Drawing Blood, released in 2006, the title was inspired by the stress of having to relocate his home studio between various Melbourne rentals after his parents sold their Montmorency property. The album was critically praised and De Backer’s ability to competently replicate different musical styles across a range that included indie rock, art pop, and electronica, was complimented, the mixing, editing and production by Gotye and Francois Tetaz, also imbued the record with a curious ambience that would be reflected in their future collaborations. The album became De Backer’s first top 40 hit in June 2006, and with his new-found fame, after he broke out internationally, it would re-enter the ARIA charts in 2011 and peak at #13. The single Learnalilgivinanlovin drew heavily on Motown influences with Marvin Gaye and Smoky Robinson and the Miracles cadences evident, he also used a drum sample from the Ronette’s classic Phil Spector Wall of Sound hit Be My Baby, the record stalled at #93 locally but was a surprise #10 hit in Belgium, and Like Drawing Blood took out the 2007 ARIA Award for Best Male Artist, and was rated iTunes album of the year in the UK. In 2010 De Backer had relocated to his family’s farm near Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula (Vic), setting up a recording studio in the barn, where he would compose and produce his magnum opus, the album Making Mirrors and the blockbuster megahit lifted from it, Somebody That I Used to Know. The album title was inspired by an artwork his father Frank had stored in the barn, it came to epitomise the feelings of self-reflection and introspection that De Backer felt about his music; and once the artwork had been photoshopped it became the distinctive album cover for Making Mirrors. The first song lifted off the album was not Somebody… but Eyes Wide Open, a trippy, alternarock song with a strong environmental message. De Backer provided sample sounds, vocals, played piano, and the “Musical Fence” at Winton (near Longreach,Qld) which captured the ambient sounds of wind through wire to produce an unusual bassline, Lucas Taranto (bass), Gareth Skinner (whale cello) and Michael Hubbard (pedal steel guitar) also accompanied him on the recording. The promo clip was an intriguing stop motion fantasy, set in a barren post-environmental disaster landscape, aliens riding atop spider-legged boats, searching for water and signs of life on Earth, but there are none; the vocal harmonies are an anguished lamentation for a planet destroyed as the ominous bass line rumbles beneath the lyrics “ And this dust is all that is left of us…”. It was a minor hit here stalling at #55, and barely dented the charts in the US (#96) and UK (#78) but the Belgians took it into the their top 40 (#33), and it was definitely an under-appreciated recording, which ultimately got more attention after Somebody… crashed into the charts. Gotye has revealed that Somebody That I Used to Know, was not lyrically the result of a single break-up, “It wasn’t about one specific relationship, but it was definitely drawn from various experiences I’ve had in relationships breaking up… and in the more reflective parts of the song, in the aftermath and the memory of those different relationships, and what they were and how they broke up, and what was going on in everyone’s minds. Yeah, so it’s an amalgam of different feelings but not completely made up as such.” The hypnotic, xylophone-driven heartbreak duet, was a song that De Backer found hard to finish, he admitted “I hit a brick wall after the first chorus, and it took me a few weeks to decide I should write the second verse from a female perspective. But I stuck with it, and I was really proud once it was finished, it seems to appeal to people who, unfortunately, have very confused, broken relationship experiences”. The vast majority of Making Mirrors was programmed and recorded by de Backer in Ableton Live and Pro Tools at his own studio in The Barn on his parent’s property, some additional recordings took place at other locations, engineered by Francois Tétaz, who also has an additional production credit on five of the album’s 12 songs (left to right above Andy Stewart,Francois Tetaz, Gotye) . Finishing Somebody… proved immensely frustrating, a problem compounded by the complex sampling of various sounds, and the elaborate scheduling problems in getting Kimbra (below Kimbra and Gotye at the Grammys) to sing her part, the net result though meant, however, that Tétaz and De Backer had some wonderful material to work with in the final mix. Kimbra (Kimbra Lee Johnson), is a singer/guitarist from Hamilton (NZ), whose early influences included Nina Simone, Bjork, Jeff Buckley and Minnie Riperton, she released her debut album Vows in 2011 when she was 21, and it charted #3 in NZ and #5 in Aust. Her song Cameo Lover won the 2011 Vanda and Young Songwriting Competition, and in doing so, relegated Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know to third place! The industry had been consumed with curiosity about who the female vocalists were who had been asked to record Somebody… with Goye before Kimbra, and it seems that originally De Backer’s girlfriend Tash Parker (below with Gotye) did a demo, but the very nature of their relationship made it difficult to capture the right balance of angst and hurt required. Sarah Blasko (below) was then offered the duet but she was unable to complete the song, and Francois Tetaz, who had worked as producer on Kimbra’s first album, recommended her to De Backer. Her vocals were just right, and she brought a sassy defiance to the duet whose lyrics are quite ruthless and delivered with an intriguing mix of passion, anger, remorse, and bitterness, by the two protagonists. The song is reminiscent of sophisticated adult-contemporary rock of the mid-80’s, and recalls the Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush duet Don’t Give Up where the prideful male narrator and his cautiously optimistic partner are struggling towards reconciliation and healing, while in Somebody… Gotye and Kimbra are acrimoniously falling apart. He has been dumped by his girlfriend, who he wasn’t too keen on anyway, but he is hurting because of how harshly she cut him off “But you didn’t have to cut me off/ Made out like it never happened and that we were nothing/ And I don’t need your love/ But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough/ Now you didn’t have to stoop so low/ Have your friends collect your records, and then change your number.” She responds forcefully and calls him a cad, and in the process, reveals his pain as just another facet of his vanity “Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over/ But had me believing it was always something that I’d done/ But I don’t wanna live that way/Reading into every word you say…” Musically the song opens almost whisperly quiet, the picked nylon guitar and tip-toeing xylophone lead into the lyrics which are low and understated, the acoustic guitar riffs that drive the first verse were sampled from the beginning of an instrumental bossa nova piece called Seville written by the late Brazilian 6-string master guitarist Luiz Bonfa (above). The dramatic entrance of the first chorus comes one-and-a-half minutes into the song, the double chorus only appears twice in the song, and the overall arrangement is neither dramatic nor bombards the listener with catchy hooks, grating repetitive riffs, or intrusive rapping. It’s theme is universal; an anguished, knowing, and engaging break-up song for the ages, which is at the same time deceptively introspective and delightfully restrained with an almost nursery rhyme-like melody. After the Bonfa sample De Backer constructed the entire arrangement as a gigantic sample collage, partly using extensively manipulated one-note samples from vintage vinyl records and other sources, and partly sampling himself, playing notes on various instruments including piano and drums. Lucas Taranto provided overdubbed bass lines, and engineer Tetaz and De Backer employed a heady mix of riff-sampling and aural massaging techniques to achieve the final mix – these included the “wobbly guitar” hooks, “Tango Drums”, the “Pizz track” of pizzicato strings and autoharp that precede Kimbra’s entrance to the song, the doubled LatinGroove loop and bongos, mellotron flutes, synthesiser, auto-tuned vocals, sound compression, along with such idiosyncratic lo-fi features as vinyl crackle on the Bonfa sample and several vocal imperfections. The music video for Somebody That I Used to Know was produced, directed and edited by Australian artist Natasha Pincus and filmed by Australian cinematographer Warwick Field. It shows Gotye and Kimbra naked throughout the clip, and as they sing, his skin is gradually painted into the backdrop via stop motion animation. In the director’s cut, this went as far as to feature concealed nudity, though this version was never posted; the video’s background is based on a 1980s artwork created by Gotye’s father, Frank de Backer, who also designed the cover art for the album. Emma Hack, an Australian artist and skin illustrator (below with Gotye) was hired by Pincus to work on the body paintings for Gotye and Kimbra. Melbourne scenic artist Howard Clark painted the backdrop, and according to Hack, it took more than 23 hours to paint both Gotye and Kimbra to fit with Howard’s background.The promo video quickly became an internet sensation after Ashton Kutcher and Katy Perry shared it with their millions of followers, picking up 200,00 views in its first two weeks, by 2019 it has more than 1.3 billion YouTube views, while the song has more than 13 million downloads and more recently has been streamed more than a billion times across Spotify, Apple music, and other sites. Somebody… became the biggest Australian record ever written and recorded in this country, it sold in excess of 770,000 copies locally, and over 13 million copies globally, so knocking Joe Dolce’s Shaddup Your Face (6 million copies) off as the biggest-selling song written and recorded in Australia. It topped the charts here for 8 weeks in 2011, and so equaled the record by Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply (1997), and was only second to Daddy Cool’s classic hit Eagle Rock which occupied the #1 position for 10 weeks, however Tones And I with Dance Monkey in 2019 would break all the records when she held down the local top spot for an incredible 23 weeks! It was #1 in no less than 23 different countries, and top ten in more than 30 countries, it topped the UK charts in 2011 for 5 non-consecutive weeks and sold 1.8 million copies there, it topped the charts in the USA in 2012 and held down the #1 position for 8 consecutive weeks, selling 7.8 million copies there and became the 10th longest-charting song in the Billboard Hot 100 history at 59 weeks. De Backer also became only the second Belgian-born performer to have a #1 hit in th US, after The Singing Nun’s (Jean-Paul Marie Deckers below) success way back in 1963 with Dominique. In 2011 Somebody… won no less than seven ARIA Awards including Best Song, Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Producer, Best Engineer, and Best Video, it also took out the prestigious Grammy Awards for Recording of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, and Best Alternative Album in 2012. Following his stunning success De Backer toured the world and performed, often with Kimbra, but he did not quickly follow up Making Mirrors or the monster hit Somebody…. Rather he went back to drumming and recording with his old band the Basics – Gotye, Kris Schroeder, and Tim Heath above, and immersed himself in researching and chasing a mysterious synthesiser-type electronic instrument, called the Ondiolone, invented in 1941 by Georges Jenny, and popularised by French Ondiolone vituoso Jean-Jacques Perrey, whom De Backer befriended. (Gotye and Perrey blow) Following the announcement by ARIA in January 2020, that Somebody That I Used To Know was the #1 Australian single for the past decade, De Backer, who now resides in New York City, was asked about a follow up album and he replied, “For anyone whose wondering – yes, the follow up album will be released in the next decade. 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__label__cc	0.704625	0.295375	Business Acquisitions In Tulsa, OK The acquisition of the shares and the assets of an existing company is a popular model for growth. The acquiring company, typically the larger, will be able to control and build upon the target company’s strengths and weaknesses. The motivation for an acquisition for both companies is the captured synergies for a greater market share. There are three common types of acquisition structures. In a true acquisition, both companies survive and continue operations seamlessly from the public, the customer and the supplier points of view. In a merger, the acquiring company survives and continues business as a larger company. In an amalgamation, neither company survives, and operations go forward as a newly-formed company. This article will focus on the true acquisition structure where both businesses continue as separate legal entities. The acquiring company becomes the parent of the acquired company. 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With the strength of the parent company, the subsidiary will share in the market power. There will be the availability of new resources and competencies, and access to capital will be expanded. The Challenges of an Acquisition The parent and the subsidiary companies need to be mindful of certain pitfalls when negotiating an acquisition transaction. The cultures of both companies need to be studied to avoid conflicts from within. The acquisition needs to be as seamless as possible to all employees. Any conflict among employees will have a direct, negative effect on the bottom line and the profitability of each company. When seeking a company to target for an acquisition, any diverging objectives need to be addressed and resolved. Brand protection is paramount. Another important consideration in a business acquisition is the suppliers. On its face, it would seem that the parent and the subsidiary would benefit from the newly-created economies of scale. However, new pressures from this larger scale will be placed upon the suppliers that may not have the capacity to service the larger account. Preserving the relationships with the suppliers, and working through any unforeseen pressures, will prove beneficial and profitable. The acquisition of an existing company is a proven model for growth with less risk over a shorter period of time. However, the process may create unexpected problems for employees and suppliers. It is essential to recognize and analyze all aspects of an acquisition for the success of both companies. Business Acquisitions Lawyer Ensuring that you cover every detail in the buying or selling of a business is not only practical business advice but advice that can save money and frustration down the road. Whether it’s through the initial negotiation or closing out of all paperwork, partnership with a leading business acquisition lawyer near you like Aaron Bruner assures that every aspect of the transaction is addressed. Navigating Your Business Acquisition Your business endeavor’s success doesn’t have to be a complicated one, especially when you partner with our business acquisition lawyer. Instead of worrying about the transaction’s legal details, our small business acquisition lawyer will handle every detail. From pre-sale to closing, and every nuance between our business acquisitions lawyer in Tulsa, OK can represent your best interests in contract negotiations, tax preparation, and even business formation as a preliminary step in the process. Peace of Mind and More In addition to the benefits already mentioned, our mergers and acquisitions attorney can provide critical insight into your transaction that you may not have considered, such as zoning restrictions, trademarking your new business name, and more. You’ll receive expert guidance from our attorney as well as thorough completion of all required applications and other paperwork to ensure that your specific business is represented without reproach. Wide-Range of Services Our firm has the experience required to ensure that every aspect of a business sale or acquisition is successful for all involved parties. When you need an attorney for any of the three types of transitioning structures (the purchase, a merger, or an amalgamation), you’ll receive custom guidance tailored to your specific need. We Are Here for Your Success Contact us today to learn more about how our acquisition attorney in Tulsa can streamline your business transaction while also ensuring that no detail is overlooked. Our goal is to provide expert representation so you can move on to the next phase of your business success worry-free.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line214
__label__wiki	0.642486	0.642486	Posted on July 13, 2018 by thomasjosephobrien You get to go nuts when your grandson get a big hit. Why Baseball Players Try to Hit Over the Shift In the last few years, defensive shifts have become very popular in baseball. Hitters tend to hit to their pull-side, and so defenses are shifting a middle infielder to that side to make it harder to get a ground ball through. It sometimes looks like this: This is a fairly extreme shift. Usually the third baseman stays closer to his spot to prevent a double down the line. But even that normal set up leaves a gaping hole at shortstop. Fans clamor for the hitter to just lay down a bunt or slap a ball to the vacated shortstop position, and then get very frustrated when players hit right into the shift and fail. So why do players hit into the shift? Why don’t they slap a single the other way every single time? If you check twitter during a game, fans think the hitters are stupid or stubborn or unable. Perhaps there’s some of truth in all of that. But three hitters who face shifts constantly – Daniel Murphy, Kyle Seager, and Matt Carpenter – provide a good explanation. Here’s Murphy on why slapping a single the other way isn’t all that helpful to his team: “It’s really difficult to get three hits in one inning. If you hit three singles, it’s one run. If you get a walk and a double, you might get one run. If you get a double and a single, you might get one run. So my goal is to touch second base every single time I step to home plate….I haven’t really stolen bases for five or six years. If I drop a bunt down, what am I gonna do? I’m stuck at first base, so what I’ve done is ask our ballclub to get two more singles, or I’ve asked someone else to hit a double.” Seager says almost the same thing: “It goes back to the question of ‘How can I help the team the most?’ Am I going to help the team the most over the course of the season hitting weak ground balls to shortstop [for a single]? I’m not a guy who steals a bunch of bases, so you’re relying on a few hits to score me. If I try to drive the ball and I hit a double, it only takes one hit to score me.” Carpenter agrees, noting that slapping the ball the other way takes the power out of a team’s best hitters, and adds that it’s not as easy to just slap the ball the other way like fans seem to think: “Think about which hitters teams shift against. They shift on guys who drive the ball. By trying to hit a ground ball to short — which is the one spot on the infield where you would be able to beat the shift — that’s exactly what they want you to do. “There’s this whole narrative of ‘Why don’t guys just hit ground balls to short?’ The answer is: (a) It’s not that easy and (b) it’s the complete thing you’ve taught yourself your entire baseball career to avoid. If a guy has a chance to hit a homer and a double, and he goes up there trying to slap a ground ball to short, the other team is perfectly fine with that.” Carpenter adds that the fan argument that slapping the ball the other way will keep defenses from shifting next time is simply not true: “As defenders, when a guy comes up and hits a ground ball to short [to beat the shift], we still go to the same place the next time. It doesn’t change anything.” Frankly, they’ve convinced me. Brandon Belt is one of the best first baseman, both with the glove and the bat, in baseball. Giants fans get on him for not slapping the ball to short to beat the shift. But he’s also the Giants’ best power hitter, leading the team in home runs, RBI, batting average, and more tellingly OPS, Slugging, Isolated Power and OPS+, all by a large margin. If he’s slapping the ball the other way, he becomes Buster Posey (sorry, Buster) or Joe Mauer (not sorry, Joe). So, keep trying to hit dingers, Brandon. Dingers are good. -TOB Source: “MLB Hitters Explain Why They Can’t Just Beat the Shift”, Jerry Crasnick, ESPN (07/10/2018) PAL: Seager and Murphy mention that a single doesn’t do that much for their team. Murphy says he’s always trying to get to second. Seager says you still need multiple hits to score him from first. It all makes sense, but it makes be wonder if they are undervaluing the power of not making an out? All of the guys mention how hard it is to aim a batted ball. We assume they can place a hit wherever they want, but all three dudes remind us that hitting a big league pitcher is hard enough without aiming it. Carpenter sums it up like this: Just think about this: When there’s a runner on third base and less than two outs and the infield is playing back, every hitter in baseball knows that all you have to do is hit a ground ball anywhere, and you score the run. And that success rate is still super small. That play is easy, and it gets screwed up all the time. Guys can’t hit a ground ball when all they have to do is hit a ground ball to score a run. He’s not lying. Check out this from Fangraphs on scoring runners from third with less than two outs: We Are All Animals I don’t know about you, but in this era of robots, self-driving cars, and pet-cloning i am reassured when a story reminds us that we’re all just animals trying to survive. That basic instinct hasn’t left us, and one need not look further than the World Cup for proof. Why do players from all corners of the globe have the exact same reaction when they fail? Why are these reactions essentially the same between sighted and congenitally blind athletes? According to Psychologists Jessica Tracy’s work, the “display behaviors of pride and shame are innate and universal.” That is such a profound concept, isn’t it? I mean, I may have had a shitty week at work and I may be a little off right now, but I find this assertion about the universality of pride and shame oddly comforting. Another anthropological explanation that makes sense to me comes by way of Berkeley professor Dacher Keitner (so you know TOB’s on board). “When people get startled unexpectedly, their hand will sort of move up to their head almost in a protective motion. The oldest kind of behavioral intention in that class of behaviors is to protect your head from blows.” So England’s Harry Kane misses point blank in the semifinal. He feels shame, and – let’s be honest – in that moment at least a tiny portion of him fears for his safety after failing to convert on such a prime opportunity. Think of the hooligans! His hands go to his head. It all makes sense. In that moment of failure I understand Harry Kane. We’re just living life and trying to protect our heads. – PAL Source: “Why Does Every Soccer Player Do This?”, David Gendelman, The New York Times (7/10/18) TOB: It’s really quite fascinating. And it’s not just players. You even see it in fans: Amateur Baseball Is Crazy And I Love It I’m putting the story link right here so you go read it. As my Minnesota people know, amatuer baseball is a big deal up there. They get a little nutty about it, and this Patrick Reusse tale captures the quaint craziness of the town ball legacy. Any good town ball story has a good amount of ancestry, takes place in a small town, and features plainspoken but boiling feuds over a game. This story takes place in Milroy, MN (pop. 243). It’s about the Yankees and the Irish. After every Dolan in town (and there were a lot of them) played for the Yankees since World Ward II, there was a bit of a dustup after a bad season. Joe Dolan lost in on his (adult) players and was out as manager of the Yankees. What did he do? Well, he started a second amateur team in Milroy – The Irish. Bob spent five years formulating the plan to start a team. He chose the name “Irish,” suggesting it was the pre-Yankees nickname used for Milroy baseball. More likely, it was never an official nickname, but rather a reference to a team with all those Dolans. Either way, Bob’s new team started by playing a limited number of home games at Southwest Minnesota State’s field in Marshall in 2009. A year later, neighbors Jim and Kathy Zwaschka gave Bob the bargain price of $1,000 per acre for 6 acres on a gravel road near Hwy. 19. This is their story. Read it! Reusse is a bit of a legend in MN, and these small town stories are his sweet spot. – PAL Source: “Family spat leads to two town ball teams in little Milroy, Minn.“, Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune (7/9/18) TOB: Look, this was a good read, but I got SO angry at the end when it was revealed the two teams have never played each other. COME ON. That’s crazy. But, town baseball sounds cool as hell. It reminds me a little of my first road trip as a freshman football player. We drove 250 miles or so to the small town of Winnemucca, NV, population maybe 5,000. It was a Thursday night game, and the JV and Varsity did not play until Friday night. At most freshman games, the parents showed up. Maybe a friend or two, or people waiting for the next games to start. But in the small town of Winnemucca? Damn near the entire town showed up for a Thursday night freshman football game. I love living in the city, but if I lived in a small town, I hope it’d be one that has town ball. Also, I loved this part: [Pat] became chiefly responsible for maintaining the legacy of the Dolan double-play combination, playing 22 seasons (1969-90) for the Milroy Yankees, primarily at shortstop. “There was a good reason I stayed at shortstop to the end,” Pat said. “I also was the manager and wrote the lineup.” Reminds me of someone… LA Sequel: Wilt and LeBron Did you hear that Lebron James is now a Laker? I wasn’t particularly interested in this news at first. For one, I was at the cabin last week, but I’m also burnt out on basketball. Then I stumbled upon this Ringer piece, and – goddamn I enjoyed it. The premise is pretty simple: this is far from the first time a big-time star joined the Lakers, but LeBron is far more than a star; rather, he’s a once in a lifetime player. He’s in the most rarefied of air of all in that he’s the player of a generation (or two). The Lakers have experience with this. They signed Shaquille O’Neal, but even more incredibly, the Lakers were able to acquire Wilt Chamberlain in his prime before the free agency era. Back then players remained under team control, even after a contract had expired, because of the “Reserve Clause”. The Ringer’s Haley O’Shaughnessy kicks so much ass in writing this story, but I think she does an especially great job reminding us folks under 50 how big of a deal Wilt was and the parallels between him and LeBron (emphasis mine): Some players are anticipated entering the league; Wilt was predetermined for superstardom. (Sound like any white-suited-up 2003 draft pick you know?) In the book 24 Seconds to Shoot, Leonard Koppett wrote that the league prepared for his rookie season by lengthening the schedule by three games (making it 75), while NBC expanded its coverage into the weekends. This was a 7-foot-1, 23-year-old Harlem Globetrotter out of the University of Kansas playing for his hometown Philadelphia Warriors, with higher expectations and a higher salary. (At a reported $65,000 figure, Wilt was making more as a rook than any player at that time, including established stars like Baylor, Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, and Bob Pettit.) Before the Lakers, Chamberlain played for the 76ers. The half owner, Ike Richman, was extremely close with Chamberlain. When Chamberlain threatened to retire, Richman promised his star center ¼ ownership of the team upon his eventual retirement. Clearly against league rules, this was a verbal agreement that became messy when Richman died of a heart attack shortly thereafter The following season, Wilt and Philly finally passed Russell and Boston clear out of the East. And after Philly beat the San Francisco Warriors, he finally brought a championship to his hometown. But there was other losing to account for; Kosloff said he had no knowledge of Richman’s promise for 25 percent ownership and wasn’t going to honor it. Surprise surprise, this wasn’t going to work for Chamberlain, so he and the other owner struck a new deal. The owner would tear up the last 3 years of the contract in exchange for a one-year deal with Wilt (preventing him from sitting out). The single year deal also had no reserve clause. You can see how this plays out, but I implore you to read the story. So fun. – PAL Source: “Wilt Chamberlain’s Trade to Los Angeles, 50 Years Later”, Haley O’Shaughnessy, The Ringer (7/9/18) PAL Song of the Week: Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – “Livin’ In America” Here's the @statcast diagram from last night's play when Alen Hanson scored from first base on an errant pickoff throw. Hanson had a sprint speed of 29.2 mph, which translates to a 100-meter dash in 11.235 seconds. pic.twitter.com/dZPUWfAMjg — Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) July 11, 2018 Like what you’ve read? Let us know by following this blog (on the right side, up near the top), or: Email: 123sportslist@gmail.com Twitter: @123sportsdigest Instagram: @123__sports Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he’s really not a part of our family. Also, he’s divorced, so he’s really not a part of his family. – M. Gary Scott ← Week of July 6, 2018 Week of July 20, 2018 →	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line216
__label__wiki	0.934908	0.934908	Inside Lebanon World Bank cancels loan for Lebanon's controversial Bisri dam project Cancellation is a victory for activists who have for years fought against the project, denouncing its environmental impact The World Bank said the Lebanese government had not meet deadlines on key agreements related to the dam's operations, including maintenance and environmental impact (AFP) MEE and agencies Published date: 5 September 2020 10:28 UTC \| Last update: 4 months 2 weeks ago The World Bank said it was cancelling a loan for a controversial dam in Lebanon that environmentalists said would destroy a valley that is rich in biodiversity. Plans to build the Bisri dam had been suspended in June after the World Bank raised concerns about the project. It said the Lebanese government had until 4 September to finalise key agreements related to the dam's operations, maintenance and impact on the surrounding environment. In a statement, the World Bank said it had notified the government that it was withdrawing its financing "due to non-completion of the tasks that are preconditions to the commencement of construction". Lebanon's Bisri Valley dam faces uncertain future after funding halt "The cancelled portion of the loan is $244m and the cancellation is effective immediately," the bank said. To be built in a valley 30km south of the capital Beirut, the dam was reportedly intended to supply drinking water as well as irrigation for 1.6 million residents. While the plan had received support from Lebanon's ruling political parties, it was met with uproar from environmentalists and local residents, who feared irreversible damages to the region's rich ecosystem. The dam project had also been surrounded by allegations of corruption. Gebran Bassil, the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun and former energy minister, pushed plans for the construction of some 14 dams, including the Bisri dam, which had been approved by the government in 2012. Critics also disputed assurances from the government and the World Bank that the dam, to be built on a seismic fault line, and its reservoir would not increase the risk of earthquakes. For years, campaigners had called for the project to be scrapped completely, for the site to be turned into a nature reserve and for the already allocated loan funds to be diverted to other projects. The country is currently battling a devastating economic crisis, a surge in coronavirus cases and the destruction of around a third of Beirut last month in the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. Lebanon introduces 24-hour coronavirus lockdown Lebanon: Aoun says Hariri ‘lying’ about government formation in leaked video Overwhelmed hospitals in Lebanon forced to treat Covid patients in cars Beirut explosion 'Like a touristic trip': Lebanese unconvinced by Macron's Beirut encore From Berlin to battered Beirut: Who is Mustapha Adib, Lebanon's new prime minister? Hopes fade in search for suspected survivor of Beirut explosion	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line221
__label__wiki	0.503861	0.503861	Revisiting Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof We all know how Tarantino and Rodriguez set out to make Grindhouse, doing something that hadn't been done before, and utilizing their ever-growing power and status as important innovative filmmakers to deliver a 2-Film Grindhouse experience, complete with fake trailers to films that we all are dying to still see, only to have it crash and burn in a matter of days. So I won't get into that. What I will say is that when I first saw Death Proof for the first time, I hated it. Hated it with a passion. I found it long, dull, too talky, and it didn't look like the kind of film they were touting it as....not to me anyway. I hated the character of Jungle Julia so much that I wished her dead within 2 minutes of seeing her on screen. I hated the constant long conversations between the females about nothing that never drove the film forward in any way. I hated that Tarantino thought he knew how women talked and acted in their little clique's. So I avoided it for years. And then a funny thing happened. For some reason I decided to revisit it last year, and surprisingly, I was absolutely blown away by it. I loved it. All of the things that I hated about it before didn't bother me anymore. In fact, I found these specific touches the very things that made this film so special......aside from the casting of Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, introducing the world to the legendary hot badass that is Zoe Bell, and of course the insanely rad car stunts. I decided to revisit it yet again recently so I could introduce it to my wife for the very first time, and again, I loved it, but most importantly, she loved it more. Tarantino has often regarded this film as his worst. I've read several quotes from him saying this, but I've never come across an article or interview where he goes into detail about why he feels this way. It's a broad statement, and I can only assume that he's not calling it a bad film at all, but rather the least of his favorites in his entire filmography of pretty great films. For a long time I considered it his worst as well, only to rediscover it and be head-over-heels in love with it now. In any case, if this is the worst he can do, then he's in damn fine shape because it's leaps and bounds better than most other directors can offer on a good day. I was also much more observant this time around, and noticed a few things about this that I hadn't before. For starters, one of my biggest issues with this prior was that I felt Tarantino only really gave it the whole vintage Grindhouse vibe early on in the first 10-15 minutes. But that's not true. It's more prominent in the beginning, sure, but he keeps it going throughout the entire first half of the film, for a good 45 minutes. Which brings me to another aspect of this film I hadn't noticed before. Death Proof is like 2 different stories, both 45 minutes long each, that are only connected together because they both feature Stuntman Mike as the protagonist. But they're 2 separate stories with two sets of women that Stuntman Mike is after for no other reason other than that they're pretty women. But one thing I noticed before, and again this time as well, is that unlike with the previous story involving the girls leaving the bar, Tarantino does not continue the Grindhouse-looking vibe for this second story. And that was something that bothered me a lot the first 2 times I saw it, but I realize now that it's maybe because this portion of the film really needed to focus on the insane stunt work, and having the film look muddy and grimy might tarnish all the work that went into creating some of the most intense, most spectacular car stunt work we've ever seen on film. In an era of CGI Fast & Furious nonsense, the fact that they were able to pull off some legendary car chases, crashes and stunts 100% practically just blows my mind. It's the main thing anyone will walk away from with Death Proof, and having revisited it a few times, I feel that it was a wise decision on his part to focus more on the stunts rather than the look of the film for the second half of Death Proof. Tarantino still keeps up the basic aesthetic, just without the scratches, missing scenes, and elements to make it look worn to shit. It goes without saying that from the very beginning, QT has had an uncanny ability to expertly cast his films, and it's no different with Death Proof. Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike was just brilliant. The guy, mainly known for his iconic roles in John Carpenter films, here turns in a devilishly evil performance as an egomaniac stunt driver (so he says) who gets his rocks off out of terrorizing innocent young pretty ladies. Russell is so good in fact that it's become one of his most recognizable and iconic performances in his 50+ years long career. But Russell isn't even the standout in this one.....shockingly. No sir. That honor goes to Zoe Bell, a stuntwoman from New Zealand who got started on Xena: Warrior Princess as a stunt double and who blew Tarantino away so much after playing The Bride's stunt double in Kill Bill that he cast her in this. Here she shines brighter than any other in the film, and she proves to be a natural in front of the camera, and most importantly, completely likable. And to see her doing her own stunts in quite a few shockingly harrowing scenes will blow you away. If anything, Death Proof, and more importantly, QT, introduced the world to Zoe Bell, and simultaneously proved what a total badass babe she is. On the flipside, I have one single complaint, and that is that I still found Sydney Poitier as Jungle Julia utterly annoying. I hated every second she was on screen and I found her so unlikable that any scene she was in was a struggle for me to get through. Rude, stuck-up, condescending and arrogant to the max, if this is what QT was going for, then he succeeded wholeheartedly. Needless to say, I'm glad she was only in half of this film and found her death to be completely satisfying. Upon this revisit, I have moved this film up significantly on my list of favorite Tarantino films. Not sure exactly where it falls, but it's pretty high up, definitely before Django Unchained, Jackie Brown, Hateful Eight and Inglorious Bastards. It's an often maligned and overlooked gem that only gets better with age and each new viewing. Though QT himself considers it his worst film, I find it far more enjoyable than some of his most recent films. Sure it's just as "talky", but it moves along faster and coupled with his Grindhouse-inspired touches, makes it a thoroughly enjoyable ride. Posted by robotGEEK at 12:18 PM Joseph Fragosa April 15, 2017 at 5:15 PM Great review. Years ago I saw this film on starz by accident while lying in bed. Right away I got into it. When it came out in DVD i immediately bought it. I even have a stuntman mike figure in my collection. Car chase scenes just blew me away! 80's Thriller Throwback: Next of Kin Heavy Metal Horror: The Devil's Candy Film Review Raging 80's!: Cyclone Film Review The Love Witch Film Review: A Love Letter to Hamme... 80's Horror: The Carpenter Film Review The Void Film Review Documentary Dynamite!: Final Cut - The Making of H... 80's Thriller Throwback: Runaway Bad Movie Night & 90's Action Attack! Presents Kil... VHS Cover of the Day: Thrashin' The Punisher (1989) Ghana Movie Posters 80's Attack!: Traxx Film Review The Secret History of Spider-Man Movies Nothing But Trouble Film Review: Nothing But Confu...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line224
__label__cc	0.67026	0.32974	Event Archive - Bergs and Birds - My Journey to Antarctica: David Clow Wed. September 9th 2020 - Wed. September 9th 2020 @ new photographers GALLERY Sidney BC (All Ages) 11:00 - 5:00 doors at 11:00 Presented by: new photographers GALLERY Visual Arts: Photography David Clow has assembled a stunning series of photographs taken during his most memorable January 2006 journey to Antarctica. It was a 3 week cruise aboard a converted Russian research ship, the Professor Multinovsky. The 42 passenger vessel circumnavigated 4000 nautical miles around the Scotia Sea. The expedition sailed from Ushuaia, Argentina, and made stops in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Elephant Island, and the South Shetland Islands, before cruising down the Antarctic Archipelago. David has been an amateur photographer for more than 40 years. His interests range from wildlife to sports to architecture to portrait/human figure. He sells his work when requested but hasn’t quit his day job just yet. He has won several awards in the Canadian Geographic Photo Contest, as well as an award in the Canadian Association of Photographic Art [CAPA] AV Show Competition. His pictures have been published in Remax Realtor Magazine, Canadian Camera (CAPA), and Canadian Geographic (The Best of Canadian Wildlife).	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line228
__label__wiki	0.747186	0.747186	Contraceptive Ruling Shows Breathtaking Judicial Arrogance In a mostly unnoticed manner, lower federal courts are actively blocking President Trump’s agenda. National injunctions, a once-rare legal practice, are now almost de rigeur among lower court judges; a way to gain national attention by using regional cases to bind the hands of the executive. It is a national injunction that is currently blocking President Trump’s efforts to overturn the requirement in Obamacare which mandates employers to cover FDA-approved contraception at no cost to the woman. The Obama administration went to absurd lengths to enforce this mandate, taking the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns, to court and threatening them with approximately $75 million in fines each year for their failure to comply with the contraceptive mandate, which they opposed on religious grounds. (The Catholic Church does not support birth control.) In October of 2017, President Trump issued new regulations allowing business owners with “sincerely held” religious or moral objections to opt out of the mandate. “The United States has a long history of providing conscience protections in the regulation of health care for entities and individuals with objections based on religious beliefs or moral convictions,” the administration wrote in the new rules. But a judge in Pennsylvania was having none of it. After Trump’s new regulations were challenged in court, Judge Wendy Beetlestone, an Obama appointee to the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ruled that the Trump Administration must continue enforcing the contraceptive mandate, regardless of religious or conscience grounds. In her ruling, Judge Beetlestone determined that lack of access to free birth control would cause “serious and irreparable harm” to the women of Pennsylvania, who would have to “forgo contraception entirely or choose cheaper but less effective methods.” The result of this, according to Beetlestone, would be an increase in unintended pregnancies which would then “inflict economic harm on the Commonwealth” in the form of additional costs for state-funded health programs. Beetlestone then applied the injunction nationally, subjecting the rest of the country to what can only be described as her torturous application of the irreparable harm standard. What makes the ruling even more stunning, however, is the fact that in it, Beetlestone conceded that the state “has not identified any individual who has lost coverage already.” Regardless, she determined “there is no need to wait for the axe to fall” before applying her injunction. In other words, the whole basis of the case—whether or not the women of Pennsylvania would suffer irreparable harm if a handful of business owners stop providing free access to birth control for religious reasons—remained unproven. Quite literally, the “irreparable harm” that was the stated reason for binding the entire country under this district court’s ruling, hadn’t even happened. Yet, in a breathtaking degree of judicial arrogance, Beetlestone still took the extraordinary step of halting, nationally, the implementation of executive authority on the grounds that future women will suffer terribly if they have to go buy a pack of $20 birth control. She was joined six days later by Judge Haywood Gilliam from the Northern District of California, who cited the “dire public health and fiscal consequences” of allowing religious and conscience-based exemptions. The efforts of Judges Beetlestone and Gilliam are blatant examples of the lower courts actively seeking to thwart key components of President Trump’s agenda—and doing so successfully. As a result of these national injunctions, the Trump Administration is blocked from pursuing its regulatory agenda—over which it has clear authority. Unless and until the administration appeals the decision all the way to the Supreme Court, two regional judges from Pennsylvania and California will have blocked the president from doing what he was elected to do. This bleed of power from the executive into the judiciary is a dangerous trend. On a practical level, it is allowing district courts—the lowest level of the U.S. legal system—to determine what laws can be enforced. And this is a problem. Judges are intended to interpret the law, not render subjective determinations on what it “should” be. But from a broader, historical perspective, the balance of powers in America is shifting. With national injunctions on the rise, it is no longer an expectation that an elected president will be able to govern as the Constitution intended. Rather, his constitutional and electoral mandate will be subject to the whims of the courts; to the personalities of lower court judges in far-flung regions of the country. This is exactly what is happening as lower courts are blocking the president’s efforts on everything from the contraceptive mandate to environmental regulations. It’s an insidious shift in the balance of powers that was warned against by the Framers. Their counsel in these matters remains relevant. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to his wife in 1804, “Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive . . . the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves . . . but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” Jefferson was right. Judges Beetlestone and Gilliam are indeed despots in black robes. Photo credit: iStock/Getty Images About Rachel Bovard Rachel Bovard is senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute and Senior Advisor to the Internet Accountability Project. Beginning in 2006, she served in both the House and Senate in various roles including as legislative director for Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and policy director for the Senate Steering Committee under the successive chairmanships of Senator Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), where she advised Committee members on strategy related to floor procedure and policy matters. In the House, she worked as senior legislative assistant to Congressman Donald Manzullo (R-Il.), and Congressman Ted Poe (R-Texas). She is the former director of policy services for the Heritage Foundation. Follow her on Twitter at @RachelBovard. Photo: US court 6 responses to “Contraceptive Ruling Shows Breathtaking Judicial Arrogance” Doctor Bass Monkey says: The rulings should be ignored, and the judges should be impeached. Why do we permit lawlessness in the judiciary? AtTheTable says: Nah, that kind of behaviour, though tempting, would just fall into the leftists’ hands. Trump needs to be much, much smarter. So your plan is to just continue to sit back and let it happen? How has the last century of that worked out? bdavi52 says: 3/19/18 at 11:16 am Not surprising, of course. Welcome to The Age of Arrogance. With apologies to Winston: ‘Never have so many…known so little….and been so pridefully certain!” The arc of history, we are told by Those Who Know Best What’s Best for Us… bends naturally & progressively Left..and encompasses, of course, in that sweeping curve a whole slew of Human Rights (previously unrecognized by the unenlightened). Hail Diversity! Hail Inclusion! Hail Equality of Outcome and Social Justice! These trump, needless to say, all those old-fashioned rights & privileges like Free Speech, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Religion, Right to Bear Arms, Right to Due Process (innocent until proven guilty), etc. And by by these Newly Revealed Truths we have learned that speech is free…until it is offensive or hurtful or hateful or used to denigrate (in any way at all) a defined socio-cultural group. We have learned that the freedom to succeed (in one’s pursuit of happiness) carries with it the freedom to fail….unless that failure makes outcomes “unequal” or “exclusive” in which case ‘failure’ cannot be allowed and so the standards of success must be redefined. So of course it’s simply progressively righteous to learn that the Constitution contained within it the Right to Free Contraception. Of course it did. The Founders were, obviously, critically concerned about the State’s ability to provide Free Goods & Services to select populations (contraception being but one of the lesser ‘freedoms’). Given the #metoo and the Aziz Ansari ‘Bad Date’ fiasco, it’s only a matter of time before our judiciary moves to enforce the still-emerging Right to Good Dates and Respectful Orgasms….obviously to prevent “serious and irreparable harm” to otherwise oppressed American women. That delusion, the law is not for me judges are thwarting the President is, unfortunately, not all that surprising, though shocking to any right thinking person. The real question though, is what can be done about it. What Constitutional authority does the President have to put judges who think they are legislators in their place, without being accused of course of attacking the Rule of Law? NutherGuy says: Congress has the authority — and I think the DUTY — to fix this. There are two ways to go: 1. Impeach every judge that does this sort of thing. It’ll be a slow slog but once the first two or three are gone the rest will rethink their belief that THEY run the country. 2. Pass a law removing presidential executive actions from the jurisdiction of federal courts and giving higher courts — most likely the Supreme Court — original jurisdiction in cases of claimed executive overreach. The latter is the better course. There’s simply no justification for a president having to please hundreds of low-level judges before he can act. That’s a road to national paralysis.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line230
__label__cc	0.723292	0.276708	in Criminal Law, General Legal, Juvenile Offenders/Inmates, Save UK Justice, Uncategorized ‘Efficiency’ is the new ‘Targets’ = The massacre of the Criminal Justice system Last night I was up until 3am working on a last minute defence case statement for a case which should have reached trial in the magistrates’ court on Friday, only it didn’t as the CPS didn’t serve the witness statements until a week previously and then wrote a scathing letter to the court when the defence had the audacity to ask for the witnesses to be present at trial. At this stage I could launch an attack on the CPS, and no doubt in time I will do, but the failure of this trial to go ahead is like many others in the courts every day, evidencing the fact that the criminal justice system no longer offers justice for anyone, victims, witnesses or defendants and is imploding. All the while it is imploding we are facing a daily barrage of comments from those civil servants and ministers who have never even set foot in a police station or court room telling us that if we were more efficient with our working the criminal justice system would work just fine. I swear if I hear this one more time I am likely to become my own client. Here is a sample day in the magistrates’ court for me, and I know I am not alone in this ‘efficient working’ daily experience. * the CPS prosecutor not turning up until 11am (and that’s not their fault as the local offices have been closed and some now have to cross into a different county and travel an extra 25 miles to get to work), and then realising they don’t have the right file; * a police officer attending straight after a night shift (actually let’s make it after 9 night shifts in a row, it should be 5, but there are so many officers on sick leave or driving round during the day to diary appointments which the public either don’t remember or can’t make as they have to go to work). The officer will be told that they are not needed at court and asked ‘didn’t you get the memo cancelling your attendance at court?’. Had there still been witness care units in police stations, the officer may have been notified, but with witness care units at such a depleted state, the memo will still be buried under all the other memos that the staff have not yet managed to get to. * not to worry, the police officer will be needed anyway, as the victim and civilian witnesses have not arrived. The officer will be asked to go and see if they can collect the witnesses. Hmm… The first problem with that is that in many areas there are now not enough cars, the officer will have been dropped at court by a colleague and have to make their own way back..don’t forget the cars are needed for the diary appointments that no one keeps! But even if a car is available, the witnesses are unlikely to be at home. They work and we’re not warned to attend court today so have not booked the time off, another unjust result of complete witness care units being made redundant again. But not to worry as there is a witness care unit in the next county, they can help..oh but they are all off on stress leave due to the pressure of having to do twice the work with a quarter of staff; * Que the court staff, can they print out the file for the prosecutor as they will have received a copy at the first hearing. Unfortunately the court doesn’t have any working photocopiers at the moment, and even if it did, there is no paper in them….at least ‘efficiency’ is benefitting the rain forests. * all of this is immaterial in any event as my client is 15 years old, being held in secure accommodation and hasn’t arrived. The magistrates ask that the usher makes a phone call to find out about this situation, oh but sadly there are no longer any ushers in the court, ‘efficient working’ put a stop to that. Hence the court clerk has to make a call, but the court can’t sit without the court clerk so the magistrates have to leave the court and sit outside doing nothing while the calls are made. Now there is efficiency for you! * unfortunately the Youth Offending Team can’t help us in the search for my client, their computers are down, they have been for the past week and no one seems inclined to fix them….no doubt G4S have already bought new computers in anticipation of their take over. But after half an hour we trace my client to secure accommodation 55 miles away, the closer accommodation was closed down earlier this year as it was too costly…imagine that, a centre for vulnerable youths not being able to make a profit. Anyway, we are told that my client will not be coming to court as there are no staff to bring him. They are running on a skeleton staff of two as that’s all the current funding will provide, and if one member of staff accompanies my client, that will leave the other member looking after six vulnerable youths on their own. * the end result is that no trial will go ahead today. But not to worry, this is a legal aid case so I will get paid….oh, hang on a minute, I only get paid for advocacy now, and not attendance, and there was no advocacy. So that is nil £ for me today, but I’m not sure it would have made a difference anyway, the Legal Aid Authority doesn’t seem to be paying bills at the moment. My last communication from them was 8 weeks ago, relating to a case which was finished over a year ago and which had to go for adjudication of fees. I was notified that after a year the adjudicator had made a decision, but there weren’t enough staff at the Legal Aid Authority to type it up and approve the payment, and therefore they would get back to me when they could…. I am not holding my breath on that one! *but at least my travel to court will be paid? Ah.. Back to the adjudication, apparently taking the train to court at the cost of £8.40 return and a journey of 45 minutes each way is not very ‘efficient’ when I could get a bus for £2.60 return, and it only takes 2 hours each way. Hence, the adjudication was to cut my travel costs by £5.80, and I am sure that the time spent by the adjudicator and the Legal Aid Authority staff ( when they finally get to my claim) will have been worth the £5.80, although let’s face it, if they spend more than 10 minutes on the adjudication they will be working at a loss. All the while, the Government which is telling us we must be more ‘efficient’ and that those of us working in the criminal justice system are to blame, is wasting a vast amount of money on a Public Defender Service, which is not wanted or needed, but which is an example of the Lord Chancellor and the Ministry of Justice throwing their toys out of the pram when those in the criminal justice system fight back against the cuts. I am a criminal lawyer and always will be, and I am a fighter, but this Government is consistently knocking me down and I fear that soon I and all the others who have made a career within the criminal justice system will no longer have the fight to get back up. I am in a very fortunate position, I am self employed, and I know that the solicitors who instruct me will not refuse to do so anymore on the basis of this blog. Many of my colleagues in the criminal justice system are not so lucky, whistleblowing policies seem to be a waste of paper. Those in the police, CPS and Court Service who are speaking out are finding themselves disciplined or sidelined, living in fear that if they speak out they may no longer be able to afford their rent or their mortgage. The bosses who are supposed to protect them are so ‘efficiency’ target driven that the implied term of trust and confidence only seems to exist in the employee/employer relationship and not the other way round. I’m not looking for sympathy, just that those of us in the criminal justice system continue our fight, and support each other, as that is the only way we will prevent the implosion of the criminal justice system and ensure at least a certain amount of justice for those who are unfortunate enough to become part of it. Going to the England Friendlies in Miami – Updated directions to the stadium If you have read this blog previously, see this updated link to the directions on how to get to the Stadium as despite my initial info that the new stadium was going to be used, I have now had confirmation that the Sunlife Stadium in Miami Gardens is the correct stadium, so ignore my previous directions! http://www.sunlifestadium.com/directions Parking at the Stadium is usually charged and will likely be around $25. Allow at least an hour to drive to the Stadium from South Beach or Downtown as traffic in Miami can be heavy even during the day. The easiest route via bus from South Beach is a bus to Aventura Mall (either the 120 Beach Max Express or S route) and then the 99 bus from outside the Aventura food court which will take you to the Sun Life Stadium. http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/routes_schedule.asp?srv=WEEKDAY&dir=Westbound&rt=99 allow about 2 hours for…	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line235
__label__wiki	0.627427	0.627427	08 - Non-Proliferation Treaty These files highlight NATO’s role and involvement in the drafting, negotiating and eventual signature of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Treaty was opened for signature on 1 July 1968, and came into force on 5 March 1970. NATO, as an organization, is not a formal party to the Treaty but all its member states are signatories.NATO also was involved with the NPT to ensure that NATO’s existing nuclear sharing arrangements were fu... Subject File - Non-Proliferation Treaty These files highlight NATO’s role and involvement in the drafting, negotiating and eventual signature of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Treaty was opened for signature on 1 July 1968, and came into force on 5 March 1970. NATO, as an organization, is not a formal party to the Treaty but all its member states are signatories. NATO also was involved with the NPT to ensure that NATO’s existing nuclear sharing arrangements were f... 01 - The North Atlantic Council The fonds of the North Atlantic Council includes the official documents, records, memorandum and notes of the Council and its subordinate Committees. Committees are created to address specific topics before reporting back to the North Atlantic Council, and in some cases can create subcommittees of their own. This fonds includes the records of the Defence Planning Committee and the Nuclear Planning Group both which have high-level d... North Atlantic Council 07 - Future Tasks of the Alliance - “Harmel Report” HARMEL This series of files consists of the records created or received by the NATO International Staff and related to the study on the Future Tasks of the Alliance between December 1966 and December 1967. It includes formal and informal documents of the Special Group and of its four Sub-groups as well as documents from the Council, the Secretary General, summary records of private meetings of Permanent Representatives, internal notes and... Special Group on the Future Tasks of the Alliance 05 - Defence Committee The Fonds includes Directives, Proposals, Notes, Memoranda, Resolutions and Decisions by the Defence Committee created between 1949 and 1951. The Defence Committee primarily drafted these items and sent them to the North Atlantic Council, the Military Committee and the Standing Group.Other memorandum and reports were received by the Defence Committee from other NATO bodies.The Defence Committee also created and kept Agendas, Meeting ... Defence Committee 06 - Allied Command Europe The ACE fonds covers documents on the early history and development of NATO's integrated military structure and its staff through memorandums and letters. The majority of the documents originate from its headquarters, called SHAPE, though some documents pre-date the creation of ACE and SHAPE. Allied Command Europe Subject File - Non-Proliferation Treaty, 2 results 2 Special Group on the Future Tasks of the Alliance, 1 results 1 Defence Committee, 1 results 1 North Atlantic Council, 1 results 1 Allied Command Europe, 1 results 1	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line242
__label__wiki	0.962232	0.962232	Dr James F. Riley Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb254-ur-sf48 University of Dundee Archive Services GB 254 UR-SF 48 James F.Riley 2 boxes The records are on paper Correspondence and papers, 1949-1968; Unpublished Manuscript, c 1960s-1970s, 1991; Journals and articles, 1936-1975. Dr James F. Riley was born in Settle, Yorkshire, in 1912. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he graduated with Honours in 1935, obtaining his F.R.C.S.E. in 1938. From 1939 to 1944 he was an assistant surgeon in the Scottish Emergency Medical Service, and later served as a surgical specialist commanding a mobile surgical unit in the Far East. On returning, he wrote his M.D. thesis 'Experiments in Carcinogenesis 1939-1944'. In 1948 he obtained the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy and was appointed as Consultant Radiotherapist at Dundee Royal Infirmary, and in 1950 became a reader in the Department of Radiotherapy, until 1975. From 1975-1977 Riley was a research fellow at The University of Dundee. Dr Riley's research was devoted to the study of the Mast Cell, discovering the origin of histamine, work that has stimulated further research world-wide. Recognising his international significance, Dr Riley was appointed as a visiting Professor at the University of Montreal where he was awarded the Claude Bernard Medal, as well as being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dr Riley died in 1985. Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation. Transferred from Ninewells Hospital and Medical School by Matthew Jarron, Museum Curator, 2004. Fonds level description compiled by Sarah Bland, Archive Assistant, August 2004. Descriptive list. Alternative Form Available Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges are made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply. For biographical details see University of Dundee Archives Biographical Information files. Riley James F 1912-1985 Dundee Royal Infirmary	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line243
__label__cc	0.632836	0.367164	A final will and testament isn’t always a fair and accurate reflection of the deceased party’s wishes. In addition, it is often difficult to interpret the content of a will in the precise manner the deceased individual intended. This can result in difficulties and disputes for friends and family members, who may interpret some or all of the will in very different ways. At Aristone Solicitors, we know how challenging it can be to interpret and understand a final will and testament. Whether you think a mistake has been made or you simply require clarification for peace of mind, we’re standing by with the support you need. Contact a member of the team at Aristone Solicitors anytime to book your obligation-free consultation at our Central Luton office. Why Contest the Interpretation of a Will? Most wills and trust documents are open to interpretation to a certain degree. For obvious reasons, it’s not uncommon for individuals to interpret wills in a manner that suits their own interests. This is where impartial mediation can help. At Aristone Solicitors, we strongly advise seeking the support of a professional legal adviser if you suspect that: The individual who wrote the will made a mistake. When a will is drafted on behalf of someone else, it is perfectly possible that the writer did not fully understand the wishes of the deceased. Alternatively, they may have recorded information in a manner that doesn’t clearly specify the entitlements of those included in the will. There has been a clerical error of any kind. It is of the utmost importance for a final will and testament to be 100% flawless and free from errors. If there are any numerical errors or even spelling mistakes, they could radically alter the interpretation of the will as a whole. Clerical errors can render a will invalid and unenforceable. Disputes only tend to occur when one or more beneficiaries feel they have not been allocated as much as they feel they are entitled to. This can, of course, create friction and cause further upset for friends and family members during an already difficult time. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the interpretation of a will or your entitlement to a deceased person’s estate, contact the team at Aristone Solicitors anytime. Independent Mediation Making sense of the terms of a final will and testament can often be as simple as involving an experienced and impartial mediator. If it’s determined that there are any mistakes or clerical errors, the necessary steps will be taken to ensure they are corrected. At Aristone Solicitors, we strongly believe in bringing sensitive matters like these before the courts only as a last resort. Where possible, we prefer to bring issues involving wills and trust disputes to a prompt and amicable resolution through objective and impartial mediation. Whatever the nature and complexity of your case, we’re standing by with the support you need. Contact a member of the team at Aristone Solicitors anytime to book your obligation-free consultation.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line244
__label__wiki	0.912191	0.912191	Posted inEducation, Lewiston-Auburn, News, Politics, Portland, State USM president proposes cutting four programs, 20-30 faculty positions by Seth Koenig March 14, 2014 April 29, 2014 PORTLAND, Maine — University of Southern Maine President Theo Kalikow is proposing to cut four programs and between 20 and 30 faculty jobs as the school attempts to overcome a $14 million budget shortfall. Kalikow announced the spending gap, which represents nearly 10 percent of the school’s fiscal year 2015 budget, nearly two months ago and tasked a special advisory committee with developing a slate of recommendations for the future of the university — in part to deal with the financial troubles. That 32-member advisory panel — which included faculty members, university staff and representatives of the outside community — delivered its report to the president last week. USM’s $14 million budget shortfall is the largest part of a $36 million gap systemwide. Though USM will have to make up for the largest portion of that gap, all seven of the system’s campuses are looking for ways to reduce spending next year. University officials attribute the shortfall to declining student enrollment plus stagnant revenue, as both tuition and appropriations from the state have been held flat in recent years, while the costs of running the institutions have increased. Kalikow said during a special meeting of the USM Faculty Senate on Friday that she is proposing to eliminate four programs: American and New England studies, geosciences, arts and humanities at the school’s Lewiston-Auburn College facility, and recreation and leisure studies. Through those program cuts and other layoffs to be announced in the coming weeks, Kalikow said she is recommending between 20 and 30 faculty reductions. She said she also is proposing between 10 and 20 additional staff position cuts. The president said the exact number of cuts won’t be determined until administrators receive final numbers on how many faculty and staff announce retirements in the upcoming weeks. There are approximately 120 students designated as majors in the programs slated for elimination, including 50 in the recreation and leisure studies program. The financial crisis comes less than a year after university leaders were left scrambling to cut between $4 million and $5 million in spending to close a previous budget gap, and the proposed job cuts come in addition to 14 staff reductions made earlier this year. “I’m personally tired of having to give our valued colleagues bad news,” Kalikow said. “We can no longer afford to carry all the programs we have. … This is painful and disruptive and horrible to those directly affected. To all of you, I give my heartfelt condolences.” Kalikow’s recommendations, unsurprisingly, didn’t sit well with some in attendance at Friday’s meeting, or those watching a live video feed from an overflow room in Portland and at Lewiston-Auburn College. “I engage [students] and I continue to engage, and I’m not leaving this place without a fight,” Stephen Pollock, chairman of the geosciences department, told Kalikow. “I believe this is very shortsighted of you.” Mark Lapping, a professor at the university’s Muskie School of Public Service and a former provost, said the American and New England studies program has generated some of the school’s most high-profile scholarly research. “How can one be a real college without strength in arts and humanities?” he added. “I have concerns that this is a consideration of bean counting alone, without a consideration of quality.” Added associate professor of classics Jeannine Uzzi: “It all feels, financially, like kind of a drop in the bucket compared to the losses we’re going to see in terms of the research of our colleagues and offerings for our students.” Kalikow said the proposed cuts would set the stage for a rebuilding effort for the university, which she hopes will include further integration of the Lewiston-Auburn facility into the more tightly connected Portland and Gorham campuses. That integration will increase efficiencies and make courses currently isolated at the different sites more accessible across all locations, she argued. “These are proposals today, the details of which need to be fleshed out,” Kalikow said. “There may be better ideas out there.” She also hinted at an aggressive rebranding of the school as a “metropolitan university,” with “flexible, adaptive and accessible” courses of study for busy, nontraditional urban students. Kalikow additionally made mention of a looming nationwide search for her successor — she took the president position in 2012 under what was intended to be a temporary assignment, and her contract expires in 2015. “This is a bittersweet moment,” she said. “It’s bittersweet because simultaneously we are charting a course for a brighter future, and we’re talking about cuts, we’re talking about program eliminations and some difficult decisions.” Kalikow said she plans to unveil proposed investments to be made to help rebuild the university during an all-campus meeting in Portland on Wednesday morning. The Faculty Senate will meet again the afternoon of March 21 to discuss the proposed changes. Kalikow urged the senate to endorse the recommendations — or come up with alternatives — by May 5. In attendance at Friday’s meeting was University of Maine System Chancellor James Page. “This is a very difficult season to be doing this kind of activity and this kind of announcement, because we are right in the middle of trying to admit a new class,” Kalikow said. “There are many factors that are being considered by families and prospective students.” The cuts announced at USM on Friday likely won’t be enough for the university to pass a balanced budget. “I expect that some campuses may not be able to balance for [fiscal year 2015] this time,” University of Maine System Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Rebecca Wyke said Wednesday. “I think we are going to have a campus like USM still not be able to do that.” If that happens, “we will use system funds that we’ve set aside for the rainy day,” Wyke said. Those rainy day funds amount to $15 million and may be enough to get the system through next year, but not beyond. Kalikow said in the case of USM, the school’s enrollment has dropped from the equivalent of 7,348 full-time students in 2005-2006 to 6,460 full-time equivalents today. BDN writer Nell Gluckman contributed to this report. Seth Koenig Seth has nearly a decade of professional journalism experience and writes about the greater Portland region. More by Seth Koenig	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line252
__label__wiki	0.916393	0.916393	Why adult sports in B.C. are shut down, but kids can keep playing Shannon Paterson Multi-skilled Journalist, CTV News Vancouver @ctv_shannon Contact Published Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:19PM PST VANCOUVER -- From hockey to soccer, curling and even bowling, nearly all adult sports have been suspended in B.C. “A lot of these adult team sports are as much social gatherings as they are sport,” said provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on Thursday. “It’s the going for a coffee or a beer after a game that has been the most (common) source of transmission. But sometimes it’s very difficult, because a lot of that is built into the culture of many of the adult team sports.” Henry says kids’ sports don’t have the same history of COVID-19 transmission, so they’re allowed to continue, but players can only practice with their teams. No games are being held and there is no travel between jurisdictions. “We are hoping we can preserve, safely, those opportunities for young people without the riskier parts of what they’re doing around playing games and travel,” said Henry. The Adult Safe Hockey League is one of the largest organizations impacted by the adult sports shutdown. Its 400 teams play out of three Canlan Ice Sports facilities in Burnaby, Langley and North Vancouver, and they just resumed full-game play last week. “It’s frustrating for our hockey players, those that come to play, they need an outlet,” said Canlan Ice Sports executive vice president Mike Gellard. He said Canlan facilities have done everything they can can to keep players and staff safe, including plexiglass dividers on the bench and strict time limits in dressing rooms. But he recognizes pre-and post game gatherings can be an issue. “It’s not the on ice where the risk is,” said Gellard. “The biggest part of an adult hockey game was having a beer after the game in a room. Well, obviously that doesn’t happen anymore. Where they go after the game, we really can’t control that.” The owner of Scottsdale Lanes is disappointed bowling is included in the adult sports ban. Families can still drop in to play with the members of their household bubble, but adult league games have been suspended. “Our leagues are totally our bread and butter,” Ken Clarke said. “If we don’t have our leagues, it’s questionable whether it’s even worth being open. I would say 80 per cent of our revenue is league-based revenue.” Children’s bowling leagues can continue, and kids can keep practicing with their sports teams. Dance studios have also been allowed to reopen, but again, for children’s programs only. With all adult hockey programs now cancelled, Canlan Ice Sports facilities will be nearly empty at what is normally a very busy time of year. “We’re going to have a lot of open ice, so if you want to buy some ice, give us a call,” Gellard said. As for when the adult teams could return? “The only way we’re going to be able to reopen is if COVID numbers get better and the vaccine starts to get distributed,” he said. “So I think we are in this for a little bit longer.” From hockey to soccer, curling and even bowling, nearly all adult sports have been suspended in B.C. (CTV)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line253
__label__wiki	0.525106	0.525106	(-) NHP Gill, M. 2019. The Monkey Business and the UK: To what extent does EU and UK legislation protect long-tailed macaques bred in overseas farms but used for experiments in the UK. Canopy 20(1), 29-34. Every year around 3,000 long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are imported into the UK to satisfy the needs of pharmaceutical contract research organisations (CROs). CITES, and many NGOs suggest that the demand for macaques used globally... Benedict, D., Megrath, B. 2018. Upgrades to nonhuman primate tethered infusion system. Laboratory Animal Science Professional 6(3) (September), 62-64. Continuous tethered infusions in any animal model pose a unique set of problems. These problems are amplified when nonhuman primates are the model. A high tolerance to the tether system by an animal model is... National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC]. 2016. Principles and guidelines for the care and use of non-human primates for scientific purposes. National Health and Medical Research Council: Canberra, Australia, 25 pp. The Principles and guidelines for the care and use of non-human primates for scientific purposes is a revision of NHMRC’s Policy on the care and use of non-human primates for scientific purposes 2003 (the Policy)... Taylor K. 2010. Reporting the implementation of the three Rs in European primate and mouse research papers: Are we making progress? Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 38(6), 495-517. It is now more than 20 years since both Council of Europe Convention ETS123 and EU Directive 86/609/EEC were introduced, to promote the implementation of the Three Rs in animal experimentation and to provide guidance... Lee, D. R., Ely, J. J. 2009. Welfare and housing of chimpanzees in captive settings. American Journal of Primatology 71(S1), 105. (32nd Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists Scientific Program, Abstract #230) Advances in facility design, healthcare, and other strategies have produced an excellent quality of life for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in biomedical research. Historically, many facilities housed chimpanzees individually or in small groups (2–3 animals). Laboratory... Van Loo, P., Skoumbourdis, E., Reinhardt, V. 2006. Postsurgical pairing: a discussion by the Refinement & Enrichment Forum. Animal Technology and Welfare 5(1), 17-19. Our experience-based discussion suggests that social animals benefit from compatible companionship during post-operative recovery. The traditional practice of keeping animals alone in an unfamiliar environment after surgery increases the subjects surgery-associated stress. Providing a familiar... Nelson, R. J., Mandrell, T. D. 2005. Enrichment and nonhuman primates: "First, do no harm". ILAR Journal 46(2), 171-177. Since the 1998 publication of The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates by the National Research Council, and the 1991 implementation of the 1985 Animal Welfare Act Amendment, many formal and informal nonhuman primate enrichment programs... Reinhardt, V. 2004. Flaws in federal regulations pertaining to the welfare of primates kept in research institutions. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 7(4), 273-276. Federal welfare regulations for primates kept in research laboratories fail (1) to include recommendations pertaining to the legal requirement of the avoidance of stress and unnecessary discomfort during handling procedures, (2) to specify how the... Reinhardt, V. 2003. Legal loophole for subminimal floor area for caged macaques. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 6(1), 53-56. The USDA regulations pertaining to the minimum space requirements of nonhuman primates and the fitting of elevated resting surfaces are contradictory. They implicitly condone the prevailing perch design that allows maximal usage of animal room... National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC] Animal Welfare Committee. 2003. Policy on the Care and Use of Non-Human Primates for Scientific Purposes. National Health and Medical Research Council: Canberra, Australia. Reinhardt, V. 1989. Alternatives to single caging of rhesus monkeys. Humane Innovations and Alternatives in Animal Experimentation 3, 123-125. Single-housed rhesus macaques were transferred to permanent pair-housing arrangements. The present investigation also demonstrates that pairing caged rhesus monkeys with compatible conspecifics does not interfere with a number of common research protocols [e.g., headcap implantation... Novak, M. A., Suomi, S. J. 1989. Psychological well-being of primates in captivity. ILAR Journal 31(3), 5-15. Recent amendments to the Animal Welfare Act will, upon taking effect, require that researchers who maintain nonhuman primates in captivity house their animals in such a way as to “promote their psychological well-being.” Unfortunately, no...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line255
__label__cc	0.562082	0.437918	koshersalaami 09/15/2020 Rock bottom. Alcoholics and addicts sometimes hit rock bottom, realize they’ve hit rock bottom, say Enough Is Enough, do what they have to do, and end up way ahead of where they started. It doesn’t only happen with addiction. Sometimes it happens with other kinds of adversity. Many years ago, when I lived in Indiana because my wife taught at Purdue, a friend of my wife’s and mine lived across the street. She was married with a few kids and working on her Ph.D. Back then the Lafayette area was inundated with trains. Tracks were everywhere. Anywhere you tried to go you ran the risk of being late because your street was temporarily closed while a freight train crossed your path. A lot of people lost patience and decided to race them. Roughly twice every three years someone lost that race, often for the most trivial of reasons. Our friend was not one of these. In her case it was different. She was a passenger in the front seat with her seatbelt on. The driver, I forget who she was, crept up to a train track to try to see if a train was coming. Unfortunately, it was, and it clipped the front of her car, sending the car into such a violent spin that our friend was thrown backward, her seat back collapsed, she slid under her seatbelt and was thrown about twenty feet out a back window. And survived without life-threatening injury. So she had to start physical therapy. It worked, she was a hard worker, and she improved. But when she hit normal, where she was before, now she had new habits and didn’t stop and so she ended up as a triathlete. Next time the Olympics come around, watch the backstories. You’d be amazed at how many of them sound like our friend. They had injuries, they got sick, they had to work at recovery and then – Miraculously! – they became world-class athletes. Well, no, it’s not a miracle, and I first understood that when I watched it happen. This is what our country is going through at the moment. Between Trump, COVID-19, the awful economic/business consequences of COVID-19, bad environmental decisions with bad consequences, rampant racism with unarmed Black males (usually males) getting shot by police, horrific income and wealth polarization, a very costly loss of faith in expertise, an equally costly loss of faith in government at all levels, rampant privatization of things that should not be privatized, an absurd lack of firearm regulations, an insane disregard for truth in reporting, a flagrant disregard for the rights of citizens and non-citizens, a demonizing of immigrants, a lack of respect for separation of Church and State, a deep failure to accept collective responsibility for anything, a nearly inexplicable disregard for interference in American elections, a devaluing of public education, an infrastructure that is falling apart, and a completely inexplicable disregard for American military lives abroad that could easily and accurately be characterized as treason, the United States is hitting Rock Bottom. An awful lot of Americans are sick of it. YouTube is full of Republicans announcing they’ve had it and intend to vote for Biden. In the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, a majority of White Americans believes that Black people don’t enjoy the same treatment on average from the police that White people do. More and more Americans are in dire financial trouble. We lost the 2016 election because we hadn’t yet hit rock bottom, or at least it wasn’t widely enough accepted that we had. We didn’t trust Hillary to understand just how bad the polarization of wealth had become and so some of us voted in the primaries for the curmudgeon who would not have made a good leader because we believed at least he’d work on the problem and take it seriously. Biden in 2016 would have been the same way as Hillary. He has credit card banks in Delaware. He looked at economics in Wall Street terms. But now he can’t. COVID-19 won’t let him. Too many Americans are taking too big hits. So now he has to be FDR – his words, not mine. A crisis is frankly what forced FDR to become an FDR. COVID-19 and the Trump phenomenon have told us that the country has to change way more fundamentally than these Democrats would have been willing to over the last several years. And Joe Biden gets that. What happens after an alcoholic or addict reaches bottom is they start to develop new habits and priorities that will help them remain clean and get prosperous. That’s exactly what I expect to happen to the United States. All these miserable problems that have been largely ignored over the past several years are about to be addressed at the same time. New priorities, new habits, new electoral participation, new inclusiveness. What happens when we give up all our bad habits? We become a sort of triathlete nation. In short, we perform. And that, in a nutshell, is why I think the United States in the mid and late 2020’s will be in a way better position than anyone I’ve spoken to or read anticipates. I’m not hearing this from anyone else. Perhaps I’m not hearing this from anyone else because I’m wrong. I don’t think so, though. I think I have a pretty clear conception of how we’ve gotten here. I once wrote a post called How The Angry White Guys Got That Way. As analysis, that post surprised my audience more than anything I’ve written before or since. I’m not a bad analyst. I understand what happens when certain dominoes fall and what knocks them over. So I am making a prediction. The US will come out of the other end of this COVID-19/Trump collective mess far more prosperous, far more powerful, and far more egalitarian than anyone I know of sees coming. And I don’t write this as an optimist, I write it as an analyst. That’s just how I see the dominoes falling. Jonathan Wolfman 09/15/2020 @ 2:28 am All of this really does assume a Biden win. He may well win. If no, the nation will have come nowhere near some rock- bottom and for some time. When we realise that losing ‘20 meant there will be no ‘24 rock- bottom is on the cards. koshersalaami If Biden loses my analysis doesn’t work. If he doesn’t outright win and we don’t win the Senate, we aren’t at rock bottom. Where we are now we can recover from. If the election is successfully contested we have a major crisis between us and improvement. Bitey I have a great deal of respect for your analyses. I look forward to seeing them, and have learned a great deal. Sometimes it pains me to disagree, and this is a perfect example. This does seem to be optimistic to me, although I accept that optimism per se is not your goal here. Nevertheless, it is a bit brighter than I expect for a variety of reasons. Generally, with regard to “rock bottom”, I think this psychological response to one’s own actions differs when it comes to a sociological question. An individual can find that he is choosing survival over self destruction, but when it comes to two or more individuals, negative actions can ping-pong back and forth where one person does not perceive self destruction as much as inspiration, and go further into destruction than he would alone. And while we have lived through an increase in instability in our society, I think it can get much worse. Now, it has been theorized for at least several years that we are living in a failed state. There is a substantive argument for this. However, if we have achieved that status, it is still academic at this point. I do not think it is the general perception of the average citizen. If it ever does become the perception of the average citizen, things will change dramatically. Compliance with laws that we take for granted will disappear. Right now, you can observe faith and compliance by simple things like behavior at signal controlled intersections, or stop signs. Once people lose faith in basic rules, that will noticably change. Another thing that I think is an unsolved challenge is that different groups within our society define certain basic concepts very differently. I think that for a variety of reasons, we are proceeding toward clashes based upon those differences rather than resolutions. I think the infrastructure, and practices with which we must find agreement in definitions, and become one nation, do not currently exist. This is a difficult theory to explain, but I’ll try in this way. We have always existed in this country with separate ideas about very basic concepts. One of my favorite examples is Black churches versus White churches. Ostensibly similar denominations differ so dramatically in practice. As those people leave their houses of worship, there is less to bring them together, or contain conflict than there once was. 3 networks have exploded into countless cable outlets. Social media has created diversity of opinion more than it has informed consensus. Things like denying science, and the science of medicine used to be far out fringe positions. Today it is quite common to see denial of the science that supports the fighting of our current pandemic. That is a deeper retreat from reason than I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. And I don’t think a society reaches rock bottom while the trains are still running, and power grid is still functioning, when a rift as wide as we have currently has manifested. I think society bounces, if it does, off of some sort of cataclysm. The Great Depression took cataclysm, the Civil War did as well. WWII Germany did not bounce until it tore itself to shreds. I think rock bottom will look like one of those scenarios, if not a combination. First of all, never be pained to disagree with me. To answer this depends on the assumption that Jon pointed out. Yes, a lot of the country disagrees on basics, but one of the reasons we do is that the Bully Pulpit is in the hands of someone who doesn’t believe in standards. The White House has made it OK to resent viscerally in public at the expense of our country without evaluating if that resentment makes any sense. The White House has done what it could to kill truth as a national value. The White House, while trying to claim law and order, only cares about order and actually has no respect whatsoever for law. The White House has treated the whole concept of science, of evidence, of seeking useful objective truth as nothing but a political speed bump. The White House has treated the idea of any kind of sacrifice for one’s country as the behavior of suckers. These are not ideological stands. They are power grabs and nothing more, and they have reached the point where they are sickening a whole lot of Republicans because, unlike the Nazis in Charlottesville, there have been Republicans who are good people. This is something you know personally from your own family. This is not a standard political divide. It’s a moral divide. Trump has done what he could to turn Id into the primary national value. (Damn, that’s not bad.) Trump has set the example that it’s OK to react without thought. And we have seen that millions have followed him straight into this. When we see race-motivated vandalism and other hate crimes, the criminals often write Trump’s name on their work or cite him in other ways. Kyle Rittenhouse cited him. A White House that is occupied by an obvious adult changes things. Biden is a good person for the role because he doesn’t trigger the visceral resentment that Hillary does. He’s a likable adult. But even past this, if the White House is addressing all the states and saying For the good of the country, this is what we all need to do about COVID-19, that carries weight, because it’s the kind of crisis leadership Americans have generally expected from the White House. There’s a big difference between the country’s biggest authority figure suggesting we ingest bleach and wearing a mask. Yes, we’ll still see division, but not like we are now. Certain behaviors that have become mainstream because of White House sanction will become more peripheral again as they don’t have the support of anyone with any gravitas. Trump’s gravitas is strictly from his office. Again, maybe I’m an optimist but I don’t think so. I’m not claiming that all this crap will go away, I’m just predicting that it will become a lot less severe. I say this not because of the actions of politicians but because of the actions of the majority of the population. That most White Americans see police treatment of Black citizens as a problem is new and absolutely not engendered by Trump. More people in the military now support Biden than Trump, and that is an enormous reversal; in 2016, those serving voted for Trump over Hillary two to one. Yes, we’re worried about the election, but what really worries us most about the election is fraud. We worry that votes won’t be counted. We worry that voters will be disenfranchised. We worry about this far more than we worry about whether the majority of Americans would choose Trump over Biden. The problem in the last election was who would vote. The problem in this one is who can vote. The last Presidential election couldn’t really be contested because the votes that were placed were counted. The process was horrifying but legally legitimate. What we will see if the process is not legitimate in 2020 and the Republicans win by those means will be a national explosion. People stay on the streets for weeks over single killings. What they’ll do if their country is stolen will be orders of magnitude larger. And then my prediction will have to wait until that resolves, however it resolves. It is not likely to resolve by leaving Republicans in power because if it does the country will have a government that a substantial majority of Americans do not view as legitimate, and in this country in particular that isn’t sustainable, certainly not with a majority of the military being on the opposite side than the government. 09/15/2020 @ 10:04 am After the Civil War which led to almost 620,000 deaths, was followed by 14 years of Reconstruction. After that the US went into almost another century of Jim Crow. The US functioned with and was defined by the people that it oppressed. It was a feature, not a glitch, in other words. The failure that we see today is from people unwilling to allow it to be a feature, not necessarily the lack of morality in the processes. The lack of morality in the processes to which I was referring mainly hasn’t happened yet. There are two separate phenomena here: oppression and majority disenfranchisement. The majority is finally figuring out that we consider oppression to be unacceptable American behavior, which is a change of feature as you put it. If an election is determined by mass disenfranchisement of voters, not as built into the system by the Electoral College but by manipulation of the system in ways it was clearly not designed to function, we then reach a moral issue as agreed on by the majority of the population. Apartheid worked because it had either the active support or tacit acceptance of the majority of the population. If millions of American voters are deliberately disenfranchised to swing an election, the result will not be supported or accepted by the majority of the population. You can ask Americans from all different ideologies and damned near all of them will tell you that democracy is an American value. I pray that you are right about the reaction to “majority disenfranchisement.” You may well be. My limitation in being able to perceive that is a sort of PTSD. I can’t tell if dominant culture values and will sacrifice for freedom and justice in the way I conceive of it, whether that be because of a different concept, or a preference for dominance. This is what I am waiting to see. Evangelicals love Trump. It is clearly not the evangelizing. It is all about cultural dominance. 09/15/2020 @ 1:11 pm Trump’s evangelical support isn’t as unanimous as it was. Ron Powell “The key to understanding the concept of rock-bottom is acknowledging that it’s a unique process. Rock-bottom means something different for everyone. For you, rock-bottom could be the loss of a marriage; for me, it might be the loss of a job. It’s nearly impossible to know what anyone else’s rock-bottom is. There’s not a tried-and-true method of predicting what your personal rock-bottom moment will be or how it will feel. The important thing is not what rock-bottom looks like, but what it represents. Rock-bottom means something different for everyone. For you, rock-bottom could be the loss of a marriage; for me, it might be the loss of a job. Simply put, rock-bottom moments have the power to make someone feel so incredibly uncomfortable that they actively seek out change.” https://drugabuse.com/7-rock-bottom-myths-and-the-truths-behind-them/ Several times I have stated that this country must reach the point of a collective epiphany… You describe a revelation precipitated by a national. “rock bottom” experience and exercise of sorts. However, as discussed, “rock bottom” implies or suggests no where else to go in a downward trajectory or spiral. Your description of “rock bottom” doesn’t come close to the “rock bottom” of a return to the American Apartheid that was the African American experience not much more than than 60 years ago… My lifetime…. A few short decades further back and you’re in the existential hell that was the daily life of most black people in this country… Your “rock bottom” doesn’t incorporate the black experience because it can’t….You have no idea what “rock bottom” would be like for black people in this country… Frankly and thankfully , neither do I…. Your analogy while apt, is not a fully comprehensive analysis. At best, it is a partial description of what can happen if we don’t learn from what Trump and the COVID19 pandemic have revealed to those among us who have been heretofore ignorant, oblivious, or indifferent to the condition and circumstances of those who have been increasingly marginalized, demonized, and criminalized in this country. Revelation: the act of making something known that was secret, or a fact that is made known: Epiphany: a moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious of, something that is very important to you In my view, “Rock bottom” is slavery… “Rock bottom” is the Holocaust “Rock bottom” is rampant amoral despotism run amuck…. Our task isn’t to recover from hitting “rock bottom”. The moral imperative and our job and our duty is to avoid getting there by achieving social, racial, environmental and political justice without destroying ourselves and the planet before we realize that there is no other way out… Here is an important distinction. I don’t think the Holocaust and slavery are rock bottom at all. They are as far down as a society can go morally, but as far as function, a society can advance and prosper with slavery…perhaps less so with the Holocaust. The point is, American slavery was an intended part of its construction. It was absolutely wrong, but it is also wrong when a coyote eats your favorite pet. It just isn’t wrong tot he coyote. The stress on American society now is because those who had been excluded by law, (everyone but white men), are defining freedom within society as being inclusive. America’s tension is that that is not generally held. The case still needs to be fully made. Gender, racial, religious oppression are part of how America works, it just doesn’t admit it. America would work better if it remained fully oppressive, or sincerely pursued a “more perfect union.” The trouble is that it is trying to do both at the same time, while only claiming one. America fails if democracy fails, no matter what the state of the economy, or public health are. As for the Holocaust specifically, genocide is obviously wrong, but I do not think it will necessarily cause the failure of a society. Civilizations can prosper while acting like predatory animals. We believe that they should not, but not primarily because it is ineffective. We believe that based upon being willing to make sacrifices for a humane result. @Bigey; “I don’t think the Holocaust and slavery are rock bottom at all.” Is your opinion… The fact that “Rock-bottom means something different for everyone….” leaves room for a variety of contexts and interpretations of which yours is but one and mine is but another…. Interestingly our opinions are neither diametrically opposed nor inconsistent… If this nation were to hit an absolute “rock bottom” it would cease to be its as we know it, and rise from the ashes as the “Phoenix” of a newly formed or newly found America barely recognizable as a remnant of its former self… I think that a definition of national rock bottom, even though highly subjective except insofar as it triggers an observable response, should probably entail a significant effect on the majority of the population in question. In Nazi Germany that was non-Jewish Germans and in the US it was White Americans, keeping in mind that it was the South that started the Civil War. The danger here is different. In this scenario, the victims would blatantly Be the majority. You’re right that I think our opinions are aligned. However, I think you are wrong about my analysis as being “opinion” based. My point was explained more clearly. The Holocaust was a moral low point, but not what caused that society to fail. Western democracies knew of the Holocaust in Germany since the 30s, yet were not opposed until Germany actually attacked other countries. Germany’s aggression caused it to fail, not its internal politics, no matter how immoral. Do you get the distinction I am making? I will accept your analysis that the Holocaust was the low point functionally, but you need to make the point. You haven’t. You just said…’disagree.’ @Bitey; “The Holocaust was a moral low point, but not what caused that society to fail.” For the millions of Holocaust victims and survivors society had hit rock bottom and failed abjectly with the most horrendous of consequences… Same with the 4pp year enslavement of Africans…. Society, as such, doesn’t get much worse than slavery and genocide when viewed from the perspective of the victims…. Waiting for the perpetrator of atrocities against humanity to hit a functional ‘rock bottom’ before seeking and securing change would, in my view, require the exstinguishing and recreation of civilization itself… 09/15/2020 @ 12:06 pm Ron, as bad as slavery and the Holocaust were, you’re missing the point. No one disputes how bad either of those historical periods were…no one here anyway. Morals matter. Morality is important. But, morality does not challenge function. I am not stating a preference, or saying how it should be. I am saying how it is. Nazis thought they had the power of morality in their side. They had “Gott Mit Uns” carved on their belt buckles. Their perception of morality did not prevent them from functionally destroying their society. The two ideas are not the same. They can impact one another, but they don’t necessarily. Like you said, there was 400 years of slavery in the Americas, and the Bible endorsed it. Slavery did not cause America to fail. To the contrary, it made America rich. The institution does not exist here anymore, but we do business where it does. The moral weakness is not causing functional weakness. It wont help to fix the problem by not being able to see the distinction, and standing on a demagogic tactic rather than actual reason. They are two separate concepts. Bitey, This point is why I talked about the majority of the population. One has to define “function” somehow in terms of answering “functioning for whom?” I agree that the Holocaust didn’t kill Germany, Soviet soldiers and American equipment did. I’m obviously oversimplifying here. Whether Germany functioned for Jews is beside the point because Germany not functioning for Jews didn’t result in a change of government. But here that’s not what we face. Here the majority is unhappy with the administration. My term was used out of convenience but really is inaccurate. As Bitey has also pointed out, we can go one Hell of a lot lower. However, I think we are reaching the point where enough Americans are so incredibly uncomfortable that we actively seek out change, to paraphrase your quote. @Koshersalaami, “I think we are reaching the point where enough Americans are so incredibly uncomfortable that we actively seek out change, to paraphrase your quote.” Your “rock bottom” is “what can happen if we don’t learn from what Trump and the COVID19 pandemic have revealed to those among us who have been heretofore ignorant, oblivious, or indifferent….” If Biden doesn’t win by a 10/20 point margin, the needle won’t move at all… There will be no ‘mandate’ to seek out and implement change. The problem is that with all that has been revealed and made available for all to see, there are still far too many people in this country who remain ignorant, oblivious, and indifferent…. Margins that are “too close to call” or within “the statistical margin of error” will result in a political shit show the likes of which have never been seen…. In such a context, minor adjustments like police reform would be difficult, and systemic or institutional change would be virtually impossible…. I don’t think the problem is a 10/20 point margin, I think it will be making sure the 10/20 point margin is actually counted. In terms of change, that’s not defined by the margin so much as it’s defined by who occupies the White House and has the Senate majority. There is a saying for t-shirts that says, “when it comes to being chased by a bear, I don’t need to be able to outrun the bear, I just need to be able to outrun you.” Something like that. And it is a funny idea, and great for t-shirts, but the joke works because there is some truth to it. It points to a certain selfishness in our society in general. It celebrates it a little. To test the theory of failure of civilization, consider the willingness to wear a t-shirt that celebrated incest or infanticide. I’d call those several orders of magnitude greater with regard to YUCK. Selfishness brings finger wagging, but will be ultimately condoned. As long as it is, we will continue to see “trickle down” scams, red-lining, even presidents who call Covid a “flu” while knowing that it isn’t. America, in large part will forgive it…unlike the other two. It would depend on where such T-shirts were worn. I wouldn’t guarantee those shirts would be accepted. The bear is funny and with a certain amount of truth. (As sheer coincidence, a week ago Thursday night while I was on my driveway about to walk my dog, a bear ran full tilt between my neighbor’s house and mine, then across the street and through someone else’s backyard. It took me a bit to realize it was a bear as it wasn’t that easy to see, and my neighbor yesterday said he’d seen bear tracks near his garbage can. I now have a very good idea of how fast a bear can move. And no, we can’t outrun one.) Selfishness in America has become ideological, a right-wing virtue, much more than it used to be. I’m curious how that will evolve, particularly if we don’t have such blatantly selfish leadership. @Koshersalaami; “Selfishness in America has become ideological, a right-wing virtue, much more than it used to be.” Selfishness is baked in to the American cultural myth of the “rugged individual” and “the self made man”… So-called “free-market capitalism” contains strains of this rudimentary cultural tenet which may be characterized as an ideological influence… Strains, yes. Reducto ad absurdum like we see now, no. “Self-made” men formerly understood that they lived in a country to which they had responsibilities. The rejection of collective responsibility by a significant portion of the population is true to a greater extent than it used to be. If you looked at politics fifty years ago, the biggest disagreements were about How. There were agreed-upon givens. That’s how Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy could be close friends. That’s gone now. No Democrat is befriending Mitch McConnell. I can’t find where to replay to your ‘majority’ response, so I’ll just start at the top. The question is still compelling. As for the majority being fed up, again, I hope that is true. By all appearances, it does seem so. Back when BLM became a subject of conversation, I remember saying that I did not see how anyone could have an issue with it. As you know, it spawned all sorts of rebuttal statements. It was deflating seeing that happen. “Black Lives Matter” seems like a perfectly gentle/meek rallying cry to me. I guess what can’t be seen are the millions who dont register on social media or on asphalt, but do agree that BLM is not aggressive or offensive. I think the closest I will see data which gives an indication of how non-Black people in America feel will be the election. I requested a mail-in ballot, and I plan to use it. I also plan to drop it off at the board of elections on the first day possible. I have never felt such low confidence in the Postal Service, and the state government. I also worry about unrest on Election Day, to say nothing of Covid-19. We all need everyone to care about this country and its institutions. I’m voting in person because we have so many early voting days that we can go without crowding. The thread is getting convoluted. I think I liked the old OS format of everything in order and you just reference what you’re replying to in the comment. At least sometimes. Yeah, you’d think BLM wouldn’t be offensive. The easiest way to avoid this crap would have been to call it BLAM, standing for Black Lives Also Matter. That would have short circuited almost all of this crap. No one would be able to say “All Lives Matter.” The problem, of course, is that they don’t, or there would be no BLM. “BLAM” is also derivative. If a society wont allow a person/people to say that they matter without qualification, it does not deserve support. “If a society won’t allow a person to say that they matter without qualification, it does not deserve support.” True, but that’s not how the other side Interprets BLM. They look at BLM as an expectation of exceptional support, support that other groups inexplicably don’t deserve. Their blind spot, and it’s huge, is that they don’t assume that the Black population needs more support. They think the way around racism is to take race as completely off the table as possible and that the biggest opponents of racism ought to be struggling to do just that. There are a lot of reasons that doesn’t work but that’s what these people think. They think the ultimate goal is colorblindness. Unfortunately, they’re way more tolerant of racism than of counter-racism. In a way this is parallel to the class argument. Upper class people would rather poorer people were more class-blind (when it suits them only). If someone not upper class complains about class differences, that’s “class warfare” which in reality is waged 100% by upper classes against lower classes. Acknowledging class differences is like acknowledging racial differences. Both are there and there are populations in whose vested interest it is to see those differences ignored so they can keep their dominant positions unopposed. I think we are in exactly that type of split currently. I think the growth of the self is making America much more turbulent than previous moments of change in America. Kids like me who grew up in the 70s don’t see ourselves as hyphenated as previous generations do, and it has helped and hurt in various ways. Two of my grandparents kept kosher and English wasn’t their native language. Aside from going to Hebrew School for a religious education (after public school on some days), I knew where I came from. As time went on, there was less of that with the earlier immigrant groups’ descendants. @Bitey “We all need everyone to care about this country and its institutions.” People must understand that the “all hands on deck” alarm is being soubded loud and clear…. People5 must be made aware of the simple fact that: THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! Would someone care to describe or define “functional rock bottom” within the context or framework of this statement?: “The key to understanding the concept of rock-bottom is acknowledging that it’s a unique process. Rock-bottom means something different for everyone.” I took your definition. Rock bottom is how low you are when you decide to change. In your estimation, can or does this apply to society writ large? Your post suggests that it does… If that’s the case, what is “societal rock bottom” supposed to look or feel like where the rubber meets the road? Especially to those among us who might argue that they’ve been experiencing “societal rock bottom” for decades, if not generations… How do propose to communicate to such people that American society is only just now experiencing, or approaching, ‘rock bottom’? Can ‘rock bottom’ occur at a point where there OUGHT to be a decision to change, or only when the decision to change has been made, or when the change has occurred in fact? In 1954, Brown v Board of Ed required that schools be integrated “with all deliberate speed”. That was about 65 years ago. There are places in this country where “rock bottom” hasn’t and won’t occur… Society’s ‘rock bottom’ decision to change isn’t being reflected in the behaviors of countless schools and school systems across the country. The law that governs such behaviors has been changed, evolved, and morphed… But in too many places, and in so many ways, the attitudes and behaviors haven’t changed at all…..With or without the benefit of reaching, or achieving, ‘rock bottom’…. I answered this exact question earlier in the thread. 9/15, 1:04 PM. Twelfth comment from the top currently. You responded then but you didn’t answer the question I raise here… A majority of the Supreme Court is not a majority of the population… The phrase “with all deliberate speed” was inserted into the language of the 1954 decision so that the majority of the population could catch up to where the so-called liberal activist ‘Warren Court’ was leading by declaring segregation both unconstitutional and immoral… When the court handed the decision down, the majority of the population hadn’t arrived at the conclusions reached by the Court….The majority of the population had to be goaded and coaxed into reaching “rock bottom” to be willing to accept and enforce the decision of the Court…. “All deliberate speed” was the platitudinous euphemism that gave a reluctant majority enough wiggle room to avoid good faith immediate compliance with “the law of the land”. The impact and effect of decades of foot dragging and delay re desegregation are still being felt all across the country…”rock bottom” notwithstanding…. In too many places and in so many ways attitudes haven’t changed at all…. But in so many places and in so many ways, they have. The shift is very real. It isn’t universal but it’s certainly there. The shift is in a whole lot of people who voted for Trump in the last election and now say Enough. That’s in the numbers. The reaction among Republicans to the George Floyd killing was numerically unprecedented. Protests broke out all over the country, including in small towns, and the majority of damned near every major demographic supported them, even if they viewed them as violent. Most enlisted military personnel now support Biden rather than Trump. In 2016, Trump won over Hillary in the military by a 2:1 margin. Maybe you don’t look at all the Republican YouTube mea culpas. There are loads of them. In 2016 we weren’t looking at someone trying to win an election by keeping millions of Americans from being able to vote. We are in 2020 and it’s screamingly public. We have a guy in the White House who is willing to damage the Post Office to keep mail-in Democratic votes from being placed on time. The biggest fear for us isn’t that we can’t get enough votes, it’s that we can’t get enough votes counted. The question, as I stated earlier, has to do with the majority. In order for the country to say we’re changing, we need a majority of Americans to say we need change and for a majority of politically active Americans to do something about it. “In order for the country to say we’re changing, we need a majority of Americans to say we need change and for a majority of politically active Americans to do something about it.” Do you remember this: “When, Oh When, Will You White People Put an End to this Shit?!” YouTube is reflective of what the mavens of the platform and genre think and believe to be sure. However YouTube is not ABC, CBS, and NBC that’s still where the overwhelming majority of white folks are in terms of mass media… The giants of mass media must take up the mantle and perform as proponents of change re the movement or shift you speak of in the same manner as Fox leads as the proponent of suppression, repression, and oppression…. As you state, “It isn’t universal but it’s certainly there”. Inasmuch as racism and it’s impact and effects in this country have been “universal” the response and movement to eliminate or eradicate it must also be “universal”. Reform in policing and the criminal justice system may address the tip of the iceberg so to speak but stopping the police from killing unarmed black people isn’t all there is to it… What makes you think I believe that police reform is all there is to it? The initial corporate responses that came out after George Floyd’s murder had nothing to do with police reform, they had to do with addressing internal and external racism. As to media taking up the mantle, the only mainstream media I’ve seen doing anything like that so far has been the Washington Post. Their tone has turned decidedly partisan. As to the rest of them, they’re mainly trying to avoid turning into the mirror image of Fox. Getting them to do anything else has mostly to do with sponsorship I think. “They must” doesn’t mean much. They don’t lead. As to eradicating racism being universal, not likely. Being close to general, possible. We’re getting closer, among other things due to generational change. The real answer to this is that we will see it addressed more than we have but less than we want. Having a President that owes the Black community big time and knows it will certainly help. “What makes you think I believe that police reform is all there is to it?” I’m not suggesting that you believe that police reform is all there is to it. I’m saying that there are those who are in the streets today who see legislative and administrative remediation of racism in policing as the ‘solution’ and remain ignorant, indifferent, and oblivious to the underlying institutional and systemic racism which is manifest in police misconduct… “As to eradicating racism being universal, not likely……The real answer to this is that we will see it addressed more than we have but less than we want.” As you would have it, if a majority of the population doesn’t acknowledge and accept that racism is pervasive and must be address on a much broader scale, then racism will remain a permanent fixture in American society and culture… A majority of the population acknowledging and accepting that racism is pervasive and must be addressed on a much broader scale does not equal the eradication of racism. Please, tell me something that I don’t already know… Again, as you would have it racism will remain a permanent fixture in American society and culture, baked into the American psyche right alongside apple pie, the flag, and Christmas… “As you would have it?” You’re saying what, exactly, that I view racism as tolerable? I would love antisemitism to be gone. I would love for there not to have been a resurgence in incidents due to Donald Trump. I would love no one to have been murdered in Squirrel Hill, PA. But I don’t expect it to be gone, any more than I expect murder to be gone. I hope both are drastically reduced. Both are facts of life – and death – that we do what we can to minimize. Racism may become rare God willing but I don’t expect it to be eradicated. jpHart Dr. K : Though your optimism is rich, we’ve already dug a ditch, deep as a rhyme trap.Taps-taps-taps the narrative ends. Cruel, heartless disdain for our deceased veterans probably underscores the lack of empathy and preponderance of arrogance of he who lost the popular vote by three million. Land of the FREE? Intellectually, if indeed every rock has its bottom, each roll checked by gravity, the moat may be too deep, the waters uncharted so to speak, as political science is non-empirical. Up in the polls? So the story goes… A teeter-totter of greed and fear as well as that ‘foreign sound in your ear’. The insouciance of self-preservation affirms its comeuppance. The probability of oligarch vote tally rigmarole already is that table center ice sculpture. In a world so cold, LO;} And that you extrapolate addiction’s end game hence resurgence of life liberty and the pursuit of hippyness and superimpose such finality with the American Experiment might be the sound of the hounds redux. Problem of the United States irrevocably skewed his ‘looney-tunes’ sleck to me years ago when he snuck up shadowing behind Madam Secretary during their debate. I affirm urgency! All hands on deck! O yeah! And no rock left unturned…. A#1 Universalism~~~danke schoen! Yes, JP, we need all hands on deck. The difference now is that we may finally have access to enough hands. I think that a shift in power is inevitable. I don’t know what form it will take, and the nature of my optimism is what happens to the country after that shift. I do not think that winning the election is inevitable. I think if the Democrats don’t win it will be because enough votes aren’t counted by some form of legal (meaning using the legal system) maneuvering, and I think the Democratic response to this will be seismic. The reaction to the killing of George Floyd was nothing compared to the reaction to the outright theft of a country. The reaction would probably be violent in a lot of places but it could include some unusual moves like a refusal of anyone who disapproves of what happened to engage in any commerce. I wouldn’t suggest necessarily a refusal to work, I’d suggest a refusal to buy. For a day, don’t spend anything and don’t order anything. If necessary, go for two. Let anyone with any influence know that tolerating this has an immense cost. Not that we’d even need to go there because an enormous number of Americans would take to the streets. My thesis, as presented, starts after this. I begin with the premise that we have reached the point where a majority of Americans will refuse to be represented by people who do not represent a majority of Americans. (We actually haven’t been represented by people who represent a majority of Americans in some time, but this would be too blatant a manifestation of that.) I can’t really predict the phase of the turnover of power. I do think it’s inevitable. What I’m talking about happens after that. The United States has been run by people who either don’t face America’s biggest problems enough or don’t face them at all. If I’m talking in terms of prosperity, I’ll approach this in terms of prosperity, which is to say in terms of money. This is not a normal liberal approach but I am not a normal liberal, though I am an ardent one. What prevents our prosperity? Keep in mind that the standard of living of average Americans has not risen since the Nixon administration. I may not remember all the big ones, but I’ll give it a start: – Polarization of income/wealth. When two out of five Americans can’t afford a new car or a new home, which is essentially where we are now, that says something about the prosperity of the general population and constitutes an enormous limit on the prosperity of the business community. This is the big one that Democrats in previous elections did not take seriously enough. This is why Bernie made so much headway. COVID-19 has affected business so drastically that Biden will be forced to address this, which is why he has said he needs to be FDR. – The existence of a large permanent underclass. Most people don’t view this as a fiscal issue but it is an enormous one. I don’t think I can outline this in a paragraph, but I’ll try to give a hint at its scope. We start with the overlap with the wealth polarization issue, meaning enormous opportunity costs. Because of poor education, add a much smaller skilled talent pool. Now look at government assistance – if this population is gainfully employed, they go from being a drain on government money to a revenue source for government as they become taxpayers, particularly as their income rises enough for those taxes to become significant. We then move to inevitable crime rates that follow urban poverty and its costs, which are enormous both in the private sector (insurance costs, property costs, medical costs including drug addiction, reduction in real estate values, reduction in tourism) and the public sector (enforcement costs, court costs, incarceration costs, probation costs). After all this time, we are finally taking racism seriously. As always happens with Democrats, we will do financially sensible things for social rather than financial reasons. – Environmental costs. Look around the country right now if you want an idea of what global warming costs us. Start with a hurricane and an enormous belt of fires. – Loss of jobs overseas costs. American businesses by and large did this to us and, in doing so, damaged our customer base and our taxpayer base awfully. Henry Ford understood that employees and customers are the same people. No one has since. Biden has proposed taxing goods made offshore by American companies that are brought back here to be sold here. He is right. – Investing in the wrong energy sectors costs. The growth is in renewables. Government support currently is for fossil fuels. This is just bad business. – Bad education costs. There is a strong correlation between education and wealth. For a wealthier country, have a more educated country. We don’t get that through Betsy DeVos – Keeping foreign students out costs. America’s scientific advancement is coming in large part from foreign students studying here who decide to stay here because life here is better and more egalitarian. This is America’s largest intrinsic international competitive edge because no other major power can duplicate it because they can’t integrate immigrants like we can – nationality here has nothing to do with ethnicity like it does outside the Western Hemisphere and the Anzus countries. The Trump administration has been hostile to all of this. – Infrastructure. As the tax base shrinks, so does maintenance, and that makes doing business more expensive. A President emulating FDR, particularly with a lot of unemployed, will probably come up with something like the WPA. We already know Biden wants to address all of them. Every one of them that is addressed results in financial gain for the American population, emphatically including American businesses. I don’t think anyone is looking at what happens if we address all of them. No one is likely to look because Democrats will not address most of these for financial reasons but for social reasons. Republicans, who tend to be more concerned with money, tend to be too worried about preserving a social status quo to really examine financial solutions like these. They also tend to believe, inexplicably, that tax revenues get dumped into a gigantic hole behind the Capital Building rather than 100% of it ultimately being spent in the private sector, which is of course where it all ends up and where it all stimulates business. The exception to this (and because it’s a reduction in taxes it isn’t part of the 100%) is tax breaks for the wealthy because the wealthy don’t have to spend their extra money, meaning it doesn’t create demand, jobs, taxpayers, expansion, all the stuff that spending creates. And, just for the Hell of it, being as I am writing a damned book in this comment, I’ll tell you another big reason why tax breaks for the wealthy don’t lead to jobs: They address the wrong problem. The overall issue is America’s wealthy not investing enough in ventures that hire Americans. Before giving them a tax break we have to establish why they aren’t investing there. There are two possibilities: not enough capital available and not enough demand to result in a decent return on investment. A tax break for the wealthy addresses the first cause but putting money into the hands of people further down the ladder addresses the second. How do we know which is the cause? Look at the capital supply. As during the Bush 43 administration, we’ve got plenty, meaning giving a tax break to the wealthy just adds to a surplus and affects nothing. That’s why we got a Jobless Recovery the last time we tried this. This is such an absurdly obvious concept that I have no idea why Republicans don’t grasp it – or why guys like Reich and Krugman don’t shout it from the rooftops. Genug is genug. That’s Yiddish for enough is enough. “Racism may become rare God willing but I don’t expect it to be eradicated.” End of story!!! Rock bottom notwithstanding… This is a common stumbling block for people, and for the discussion of what should be about public policy, and social hierarchies. “Racism” as a term is almost useless outside of these contexts, but is often the focus of the discussion. Racism is quite legal. Racism, outside of public policy and the construction of social hierarchies, is a thought. Thought is and should be free, and without restriction. In other words, you can’t make someone not be a racist. That is not really anyone’s business but the racist’s. Even as people gather together on principles and values that they share, if racism is among them, and the gathering does not involve public policy, they are fully entitled to do so. Lots and lots of people are probably going to continue to be racists, just like lots and lots will continue to like banjo music. Who is to say that they can’t? And then there was Charlottesville… @Koshersalaami I appreciate your summation. It is replete with innate optimism. Allow me to concur and further compliment your effusive executive articulation. Thus far, here in Roosevelt’s Rustbelt, there’s Bill Iffrig-like resilience. DNC outlets are pressed to pace demand for BIDEN+HARRIS lawn signs. The incoming administration’s brilliant selection of Kamala Harris compelled me to the steps of of Old St. Mary’s Parish where I cried a little bit. Whatismore, Joe Biden’s media is perfectly poignant and persuasive. Just now, a cool family with a handsome young boy battling leukemia underscores the clear and present danger of continued Federal finagling with equitable health care. Right now, Melissa and me are truckin’ to Salk City to photograph the diving eagles above the Wisconsin River afore the orange September sunset. Please be assured there will be song. I knew I left out something, and there may be more. I left out union suppression. 18 of 1~a Dozen & One-Half of Another: Young soldiers on a yellow bus. Sort of. I mean the young soldiers. At this point Trump just announced he wants to change school curricula all over the country. If he doesn’t stick around this won’t be an issue. True Old Glory, again half-mast. Agent orange benefits, lived six months. Godspeed Judge Ginsburg, we are free. Alan Milner Now we have really hit rock bottom now that Ruth is gone. Unfortunately, I know where this has to lead. Sen. McConnell has already announced his intention to confirm her replacement before the election. If he does that, the only alternative the Democrats have is to pack the court. I’ve made my case in a new post. sadness that measure of peace LIBERTY awaits the release LIGHT in eyes PROGRESS our pulse remorse of course canvass taut snaps salute triangular the fold cloth to frame eternal our flame salt tears no fears seven times three echoes of thee JP, Did you recently lose someone who served? Sleep is the expensive thing. Tarp or dank night. Thick feather tick. 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__label__wiki	0.891686	0.891686	Charles Willson Peale Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), American painter and scientist, was a solid and sometimes strikingly original painter, as well as an inventor and a museum founder. Charles Willson Peale was born in Queen Annes Country, MD, on April 15, 1741. His father was an adventurer from Rutlandshire, England, who emigrated to Maryland after he had been caught embezzling. In Maryland he took a position as a schoolmaster and married. He died, leaving no inheritance, when Charles was 9, and the boy and his mother were forced to fend for themselves. At the age of 13 Charles was apprenticed to a saddler; shortly afterward he learned watchmaking. By the time he was 21 and married, he had added clock-making and upholstering to his repertoire and had taught himself painting after having been inspired by an amateur artist. Successful Portraitist Peale received some instruction from the Maryland artist John Hessalius. In 1766 wealthy citizens of Maryland raised £83 to send him to London to further his training in art, studying with Benjamin West. He remained until 1769. While there he painted an elaborately symbolical portrait, Pitt as a Roman Senator. On his return Peale settled in Annapolis. In 1772 he painted the first portrait ever done of George Washington. The exuberance of the Peale family and their warmth toward one another is recorded in the Peale Family (1773), which includes the artist, his wife, mother, brothers, sister, his old nurse, and an unidentified baby. Peale had such great success as a Portraitist just prior to the Revolution that he was able to move his business to Philadelphia. His portraiture combines a freshness and affability with a certain naive stiffness. Peale served with distinction in the Revolution. As a first lieutenant in the militia, he crossed the Delaware with Washington and spent the dreadful winter at Valley Forge, where he did miniatures of some 40 officers. He gained the intimate friendship of Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. In 1781 Peale added an exhibition gallery to his Philadelphia studio, where he housed 44 of his portraits of outstanding American leaders. His wife died in the 1790s as a result of her eleventh pregnancy, and Peale soon remarried. In all, he fathered 17 sons and daughters, who were named after famous painters chosen from the pages of a dictionary of painters. Peale liked to present a tour de force in some paintings. The Staircase Group (1795) shows his sons Titian Ramsay and Raphaelle, life-size, climbing a narrow stairway. The painting was exhibited in a doorframe as a trompe l'oeil, and the shadows the figures cast and an accurately painted card on a step added to the effect. On one occasion, Peale's desire for novelty took a macabre turn. In Rachel Weeping (1772) he shows his first wife weeping over her dead child prominently laid out in the foreground. In the portrait of his brother James (1822) the sitter is shown in a novel way: he is seated at his desk at night, his face illuminated by a lamp. Throughout his lifetime Peale maintained an enduring and active interest in many branches of science. He did silhouettes with the physiognotrace, a machine used to record profiles. He patented a fireplace, porcelain false teeth, and a new kind of wooden bridge; perfected the polygraph, a kind of portable writing desk which could make several copies of a manuscript at once; invented a rude motion picture technique; and wrote papers on engineering, hygiene, and other subjects. In 1786 Peale established the first scientific museum in America. It contained living species of snakes, turtles, toads, and fish as well as stuffed birds and animals. The crowning touch was an entire mastodon skeleton, which he helped excavate on a farm in upstate New York in 1801. He depicted this event in an extraordinary painting, The Exhuming of the Mastodon (1806-1808). It contains 75 figures and shows the great wheel used to lift the water from the marl pit where the bones were embedded, the plank room, and the army tent where the excavators slept. It is loosely classified as one of the first American genre pieces. In the painting The Artist in His Museum (1822) Peale shows himself lifting a curtain to reveal the contents of his museum. Peale fought to have his museum established as a state institution, and in 1802 it was transferred to the upper floor of the State House (the present Independence Hall). He established the Columbianum in 1795, America's first public exhibition of both modern paintings and the Old Masters. Out of this he organized the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which received its charter in 1806 and which stands today as the oldest art school in America. He died in Philadelphia on Feb. 22, 1827. Further Reading on Charles Willson Peale Charles Coleman Sellers, Charles Willson Peale (2 vols., 1947; 1 vol., rev. ed. 1969), is an extremely lively and well-documented account, with ample quotations from Peale's elaborate "Letterbooks." Peale is discussed in Charles H. Elam, comp., The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists (1967). For general background see Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America (1949; rev. ed. 1960). Peale, Charles Willson, Charles Willson Peale and his world, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1983. Sellers, Charles Coleman, Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art, New York: Norton, 1980.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line268
__label__wiki	0.824076	0.824076	Falsified and Substandard Medicines Vision, Mission and Method Founding spirit The Spirit of Brazzaville Why Brazzaville the Brazzaville Accords The documentary Plot for Peace Partnering with Africa A vision of sustainable development Because its vision, mission and method are oriented towards the enhancement and capacity building of actors engaged in the implementation of concrete actions, the Brazzaville Foundation is strongly inspired by the endogenous development approach. As an NGO in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, it promotes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Enabling African leadership The Brazzaville Foundation's vision for the future is to enable African leadership in all sectors in which it can be exercised (public, private, civil society), with a view to contributing to African solutions to the challenges facing the continent. The Foundation supports leaders (opinion and decision makers, influencers, groups or individuals) who share its vision and mission. Promoting and supporting African initiatives In order to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals the Brazzaville Foundation promotes and supports African initiatives in the following areas: SDG Goal 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages, through its work to fight falsified and substandard medicines. SDG Goal 6 – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, through its work on the Congo Basin Blue Fund SDG Goal 15 – Protect restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems(…) and halt biodiversity loss, through its work on protection of the environment and actions to end poaching and trafficking of protected species. SDG Goal 16 – Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels through its work onconflict prevention, resolution and intercultural dialogue. Our mediation method Putting African people and leaders at the heart of the action The Foundation's approach to mediation stems from that initiated in the late 1980s by its Founding Chairman, Jean-Yves Ollivier. It consists in putting African populations and leaders at the heart of the action that concerns them. The Foundation acts as a catalyst for ideas and initiatives through mutual trust, confidentiality, diplomatic agility and the ability to adapt to circumstances. By relying on its network of advisers and personalities, it gives concrete expression to its ambitions by seeking support at the highest levels and encouraging the establishment of partnerships. The Foundation develops initiatives which put African countries in the lead in meeting some of the key challenges facing the continent, including sustainable development, conservation and conflict prevention. In doing so, we aim to promote peaceful cooperation and support the UN’s sustainable development goals. The Foundation also seeks to facilitate dialogue and achieve a better understanding between conflicting parties wherever informal diplomacy, bridge-building and discreet, pragmatic engagement offer an alternative way forward. The Foundation acts on its own initiative, at the request of the parties to a conflict, or at the invitation of national, regional or multilateral organisations. Only by achieving peace and stability can nations thrive, people prosper and the environment be safeguarded. Our commitment to accountability and transparency The Foundation considers that honesty and integrity are indispensable to achieving its aims. The Foundation is committed to operating in a wholly ethical manner and does not tolerate any form of bribery, corruption or money laundering. Copies of the Foundation’s Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedures and of its Anti-Money Laundering Policy and Procedures are available on request. The Foundation has appointed professional advisers who have agreed, on a pro bono basis, to conduct due diligence, to ensure the integrity of its financial processes and to advise on all measures necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the Foundation's anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies. The Foundation supports the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime which combats money laundering and criminalises the laundering of proceeds of crime. It has contributed to the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) which is responsible for the implementation of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism in West Africa. Legal Contact us	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line272
__label__cc	0.693854	0.306146	Peter Eimer Peter Eimer is the Chief Executive Officer of the Brothers of Mercy campus. His career began at the Brothers of Mercy in 2001 as the Foundation Director. In 2003 he also took on the management of the finances of the Brothers Congregation. In 2010 he was named Chief Operating Officer of all the campus facilities and in 2016 was named Chief Executive Officer, becoming the first layperson to be named to that position. Mr. Eimer has an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Canisius College. He is a Certified Public Accountant and began his career with KPMG. Following his work with KPMG, he worked as a Vice-President at Goldome, KeyCorp and M&T Bank and has 16 years of experience in banking. Teresa Dillsworth Teresa Dillsworth is the Administrator to the Brothers of Mercy Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Teresa comes to Brothers with 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry; most recently as Administrator of Our Lady of Peace Nursing Care Residence in Lewiston, a 250-bed facility that shares the same Catholic tradition and mission as the Brothers of Mercy. She also served as Assistant Administrator at Delaware Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, and the Father Baker Manor in Orchard Park. Her first 11 years in healthcare were spent working at Brothers of Mercy, making this new endeavor a homecoming, of sorts. Teresa, who earned her Organizational Development degree from Hilbert College, has extensive experience in human resources, information technology, fiscal responsibility, clinical benchmarking and resident care. Joseph Widmer Joe Widmer is the Chief Financial Officer of the Brothers of Mercy campus. He came to the Brothers of Mercy organization in 2015 as the Director of Finance for the Nursing Home. Joe brings over 40 years of health care experience in accounting and auditing to the BOM campus. A Certified Public Accountant and graduate of Canisius College, Joe began his career as an auditor for a major insurance company. He worked as a long term healthcare consultant for Ernst and Young, LLP for 5 years before moving on to becoming the reimbursement manager and eventual CFO for a large proprietary nursing home chain in WNY. In addition to his accounting and finance skills, Joe has extensive knowledge and experience in third party revenue and reimbursement maximization in the health care field. Nancy Gugino Nancy Gugino is the Executive Director of the Brothers of Mercy Foundation. Nancy began her career with the Brothers of Mercy in 2013 as the Administrator of the Senior Apartments. In 2015, she was asked to assume the role of Executive Director of the Foundation. In the first nine months as Director, she obtained a major gift from Russell J. Salvatore which was used to build a brand new outpatient rehabilitation clinic on the Brothers of Mercy Campus. In addition to her foundation responsibilities, in the Fall of 2016, Nancy took on the role as Campus Business Development Director and in 2017 will be spearheading a Capital Campaign for campus improvements and growth. Nancy is a graduate of Cardinal O’Hara H.S. and Canisius College. Mindee McDonald Mindee McDonald is the administrator of the Brothers of Mercy Sacred Heart Home. A dedicated employee for over 20 years, Mindee started in dining services when she was only 16 years old. At 18, she became a PCA, and later earned a degree in nursing at The University at Buffalo. After graduation in 2004, she became a staff nurse, and in 2006 was promoted to the Director of Nursing. In 2010 she became the Assistant Administrator and in 2019 was promoted to Administrator. Mindee likes the fact that the entire campus is family oriented and focused on the quality of life for the residents, no matter which building. Quality of life is “job” one for the residents and their family. Mary Baty Mary Baty is the administrator of the Brothers of Mercy Senior Apartments. Mary focuses on contributing to the betterment of life for seniors. Her experience with activities, sales, operations and administration are all centered on providing an enriching, safe and welcoming environment for the residents of Brothers of Mercy Independent Senior Apartments Her volunteer work with WNY Heroes, a local Veteran’s outreach organization, has taught her the importance of recognizing that everyone has a unique life story. Hearing residents share their stories is her greatest reward. Valerie Kane Valerie Kane is the administrator at Montabaur Heights. Valerie began her career at the Brothers of Mercy in 1986 as Director of Food Services, and through the years has also worked at the Sacred Heart Home and Rehabilitation Center. She brings and extensive set of skills to her current position. A graduate of Buffalo State College, Valerie started her career at age 16 serving seniors at Beechwood residence, and has served senior citizens and worked in the health care industry her entire career. Valerie received the Top 50 Healthcare service award 2014. Bob Zotara Bob Zotara is the Director of Marketing and Communications at the Brothers of Mercy. His responsibilities include all internal and external communications including print media creative, design and layout, radio and television coordination, web design, video production, media buying, press releases and campus branding. A graduate of Canisius College, Bob started his BOM career in 2016 after 30 years of being the owner and creative force behind The PMA Group – a full service advertising and marketing agency in Amherst. He was also a partner in a dental marketing growth consulting company.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line274
__label__wiki	0.741181	0.741181	Despite State Law, Rhode Island Has Never Evaluated Its Business Tax Incentives [NOTE: An audio version of this story aired on Rhode Island Public Radio.] In 2013, Rhode Island lawmakers directed the state’s revenue department to analyze tax incentives created to spur economic development. The idea was to assess whether those incentives were actually working. Linda Katz, co-founder and policy director of the non-profit Economic Progress Institute, was one of the people who supported the law. “It’s the bang for the buck,” said Katz, whose organization advocates for policies that benefit lower-income Rhode Islanders. “We want to know if we’re giving away money in order to either attract a company here, keep a company here, try to ignite some activity, that we know that, at the end of getting that tax break, we’re actually better off than we were before the company got here.” But there’s one key problem: the state has yet to produce a single evaluation required under the law. The first report was due last June. “The state needs to do a better job of making sure that we’re watching out for the wellbeing of the entire state,” said Doug Hall, the Economic Progress Institute’s director of economic and fiscal policy. The analysis is supposed to measure factors such as the economic impact of business tax incentives, their cost, and the extent to which money kept by companies actually stays in Rhode Island. The report would also contain recommendations about whether to keep, modify or eliminate specific tax incentives. Hall says this information would make economic development programs more transparent and accountable. “Historically, this has all happened in a black box, and the citizens of Rhode Island deserve to know what goes on in the box,” Hall said. “And these are the tools we need to help make that happen.” Tax incentives come in several forms. Some reduce the direct taxes owed by a company, while others lower taxable income. They can also exempt some investments and income from taxes. State officials use these as tools to lure, keep, or help expand businesses. Figures made available for some state incentive programs, show Rhode Island has awarded nearly $350 million in tax breaks since 2008 alone. Mark Furcolo, who directs the state Department of Revenue, agrees the evaluation of tax incentives is overdue. He took over the department just a few months ago. “I can’t speak for my predecessor,” said Furcalo. “What I can speak for is that I do think it’s an important report. I think it’s a wonderful report in the fact that we get to put our recommendations into that report. I’m committed to getting it done as soon as possible, and I will get it done.” Paul Grimaldi, the Department of Revenue spokesman, explained some of the factors that held up the report. Staffing is one. The Office of Revenue Analysis was once down to as few as one full-time and one part-time employee. Taxpayer confidentiality issues complicated information sharing between state agencies. Analysts were also busy with other reports, like a recent car tax analysis. “I think that the legislature and the policy makers were headed in the right direction with what they wanted. We need the analysis that you’re talking about,” Grimaldi said. “And, as Mark said, we think we’re at the place where we have the staff to do things in a timely fashion.” In Rhode Island, a handful of large companies have been the primary beneficiaries of the state’s tax incentive programs. Those companies include CVS Health, Fidelity Investments, Citizens Bank, and submarine maker Electric Boat. At $175 million, Woonsocket-based CVS alone has received roughly half of all incentives made public by the Division of Taxation. “Tax incentives are really important decisions for states’ budgets and for states’ economies,” said Josh Goodman, senior officer for state fiscal health at the Pew Charitable Trusts, which began researching tax credits and incentives more than five years ago. Pew assisted Rhode Island in developing its own evaluation program. “Across the country states commit billions of dollars a year to tax incentives, and they’re one of the primary tools that states use to try to create jobs, attract businesses, grow their economy,” said Goodman. He points out there is a learning curve involved when states set out to determine the effectiveness of their tax incentive programs. Information gathering can be tricky, as it was in Rhode Island’s case. To measure a program’s effectiveness, analysts also have to develop a methodology that’s going to produce accurate results. According to Goodman, 30 states now have laws in place requiring regular evaluations of tax incentives, like Rhode Island. Because it has a law on the books, Pew considers Rhode Island to be among states headed in the right direction, even if it hasn’t completed a single evaluation. Still, Doug Hall at the Economic Progress Institute says Rhode Islanders should be thinking more critically about corporate tax breaks and whether they are the best economic development policies to begin with. “It’s really especially important during times of significant fiscal constraint. When we look at the research around economic development incentives, the record is pretty, pretty fuzzy,” Hall said. “And, if anything, it shows that collectively there’s really not the sort of return that you would expect to see.” Governor Gina Raimondo has been a strong advocate for incentives. She wasn’t available for an interview for this story, but said in a statement that her programs have created new jobs. The state Department of Revenue has begun releasing more tax incentive figures in its annual reporting. Officials there now say the target date for the first evaluation of state tax incentive programs is the end of this June, one year past the original deadline. 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__label__cc	0.715377	0.284623	Wild Dogs, Feral Dogs and Pariahs Jim Ha, PhD, CAAB I recently gave a presentation on applied animal behavior to a wonderful animal advocacy group on the Micronesian island of Guam. I was on the island on behalf of my wife’s (Dr. Renee Ha, UW Psychology/Animal Behavior) research on the endangered Mariana Crow, and I offered to meet with the local shelter group, GAIN (Guam Animals In Need) to do a little education… and ended up getting an education myself. I started out talking about the principles of animal behavior, and of learning, and of treatment of anxiety in the shelter environment, and all of the information that is so widely useful to my clients and audiences (speaking and blog, in-home and shelter-based) here in the States. But that’s not what they really wanted to talk about… they had different issues, like how to lay their hands on the animals in the first place. We had to talk for a while before I realized what we were talking about: truly feral dogs. These are not household pets that had escaped, and were running loose for days, or weeks, or even months. These were not the offspring of family pets that had been dumped for lack of energy or motivation to find homes. These were multi-generational, wild-living dog packs. Now, we should be clear about our terms when it comes to these sorts of animals. Wild dogs would refer to species not yet domesticated, living in the wild, like African Wild Dogs, wolves, and so on. At the other extreme are free-ranging household pets. In between these two extremes falls two groups recognized by wildlife experts (these terms apply to any formerly domesticated species but we’ll stay focused on dogs here): feral dogs and pariah dogs. Pariah dogs, as an ecological term, was coined by Lehr Brisbin, a biologist in Savannah GA many years ago in his work on abandoned dogs at a Federal facility in the area (nice article about him here. The term Pariah Dog has now been adopted by a number of breed groups as a name for a type of dog formerly occupying the “pariah niche” in ecology-speak, and now returned to domestication (human controlled breeding). But the original pariah-type in ecology referred to dogs who were breeding freely, without human intervention but reliant on humans for food (and probably predator avoidance and reduction too). Many areas of our country have resident pariah dog packs, groups of varying social composition, dependent on human handouts and refuse, and protection from their physical and biological surroundings. Feral dogs, on the other hand, are truly wild packs, able to fend for themselves in the wild, no longer dependent on humans at all. These packs are much less common, and what appears to exist on Guam. Now, this issue of pariah groups consisting of loose and dynamic, let’s say, aggregations of dogs, as opposed to feral, not dependent on humans, reproductively stable dog packs is interesting from an ethological perspective. It is in these pariah groups that canine aficionados opposed to the concept of social hierarchy among dog find the lack of a social hierarchy like wolves. And this makes sense, since the social structure is quite different: in wolf packs, or packs of truly feral dogs, the pack is an inter-related extended family group, whereas in pariah aggregations of dogs, there are no, or few, close genetic relationships. And as we know from ethological studies, kinship is a major force in the determination of social organization and hierarchies. So it would be fascinating to study the social organization of these (fairly unusual) truly multigenerational, feral, reproductively-stable groups of dogs. Based on the existing literature, I predict we would find strong male and female social hierarchies as we do in wolves and most other canids. Aaah, so many interesting research studies, so little research money!! And eventually we come back to the issues of the GAIN volunteers of Guam. Truly feral dogs are wily, smart animals (you don’t survive in the jungles of Guam, exposed to other predators like large monitor lizards, venomous brown tree snakes, and most critically, other feral dog packs, without becoming very reclusive and cautious, like, say, wild wolves and coyotes! What could I tell them? These were not the black labs, pit bulls, and Yorkies that I am used to treating. These dogs all knew, or were learning quickly, exactly where their next meal came from, and all knew exactly where they were sleeping that night, and for whom capture meant holding out a treat and grasping them firmly by their collar! These folks needed to know how to set live-traps in the jungle, and how to deal with truly wild canids when they were found injured or hit by a car. So they had fascinating academic questions here, but they needed real, practical help. So I switched gears, began to think more about my training as a wildlife biologist, and about how to deal with the very most extreme cases that I have seen in shelter animals, dogs raised in environments with a total lack of socialization (rare, in our world, thank goodness), and hopefully, was able to provide some suggestions that might help. It was a wonderful meeting, an enlightening one for me, and I promised the GAIN team that I would remain in touch, and look for possibilities to fund some very exciting research in their world. I’ll be back to the Mariana Islands later this summer, and if I can make it to Guam, I look forward to interacting with all of them again! Andre says First, why is it bad that dogs have not been socialized to humans when they, as you said, can live without them? Second, do you know any publications, books, articles and the like about pariahs and ferals who care to look deeper than just portraying them as poor outcasts and pests? Jim Russell says There’s not much literature on this fascinating subject, it appears. Best description I’ve found of actual pack behavior in feral dogs is: Nesbitt, W.H. “Ecology of a Feral Dog Pack on a Wildlife Refuge.” In The Wild Canids. Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology and Evolution. in: Fox, Michael W. 1974. The Wild Canids: Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology, and Evolution. Van Nostrand Reinhold. An interesting study of urban strays is: Beck, Alan M. The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-ranging Urban Animals. Purdue University Press. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/press_ebooks/4. but it is really not the same thing as truly feral dogs, as Dr. Ha points out. Another study – a good one: Boitani, L, F Francisci, P Ciucci, and G Andreoli. “Population Biology and Ecology of Feral Dogs in Central Italy.” In The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People. Serpell, James, ed. 1996. The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People. Cambridge University Press. Christine Hibbard says Thank you for reminding me about Beck, Alan M. The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-ranging Urban Animals. That has been on my reading list for way too long. Well I already know that and none of this is actually much or recent. If there is so little data why is it that people just repeat the same stuff over and over? And its not as though the pet dog world is so great. As hard as the life of a feral might be at least they don’t get bred to death. Sadly, animals, being the only role model for humans, lead humans to replicate their pack animal habit….unsuccessful in the human landscape because humans are not inherently pack animals. Hence, failure to distinguish what is human socially, and what appears to emulate animal behavior often gets lost and confused in the transmission of human values – easy to see, but hard to fix, once established within human culture. There is little more important than to think like humans, not like the dogs we observe in our environment. It would be difficult indeed to “love” a pack animal dog, and make it a pet, as we do with those we “cull” from the herd. Humans are not herd animals…..even though they seem to act like it sometimes.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line277
__label__cc	0.728684	0.271316	My first publishing experience in biblical studies This article is an anecdote about my first experience publishing in a biblical studies academic journal.1 I hope the reader will forgive any self-congratulatory exuberance inherent in writing about one's writing. (Perhaps I am betraying my greenhorn status by expressing excitement over an achievement that for professional biblical scholars is par for the course.) All glory goes to God, whose I am and whom I serve. My hope in writing this anecdote is that it will prove useful to other amateur biblical scholars who aspire to publish. Over the past two years I co-authored two articles with Dr. Guy Williams, who specializes as a Pauline scholar.2 Both articles have been accepted by the Journal for the Study of the New Testament and published in the September 2016 issue, comprising 56 pages combined.3 Their titles are, respectively, Diabolical Data: A Critical Inventory of New Testament Satanology and Talk of the Devil: Unpacking the Language of New Testament Satanology. I am a statistician by profession, and am also in the latter stages of an Honours degree in theology through distance learning (at King's Evangelical Divinity School in the U.K., which I highly recommend). I've long had an interest in marrying my statistical background with my interest in the Bible by applying statistical analysis to biblical texts. I've also long been interested in Satan as a theological concept, owing in large part to my upbringing in the Christadelphian sect, which has a unique interpretation of the biblical devil and Satan. In 2013-14 I engaged in some correspondence and online discussion with Christadelphians about the prevalence of Satan in the New Testament. My interlocutors had claimed that Satan is prominent in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts but marginal in the rest of the New Testament. This claim struck me as suspect, and I did some preliminary statistical analysis which confirmed my suspicions, publishing my findings on this blog. However, one of the challenges I faced in conducting this statistical analysis was the uncertainty of the data set itself: how many references to Satan are there in the New Testament? One can easily count up the number of occurrences of the Greek words satanas and diabolos, but it is not obvious that every instance of these words does refer to Satan (e.g., John 6:70). Moreover, there are numerous other New Testament terms that do seem to refer to Satan, such as 'the evil one' (Matt. 13:19), 'the god of this age' (2 Cor. 4:4) and 'the ruler of this world' (John 12:31). I couldn't find any scholarly source that sought to identify all New Testament references to Satan, offering critical exegesis of uncertain cases. Hence, I resolved to create this data set, reasoning that this would not only assist me in my own statistical analysis but would be a tool for broader research Satan in the New Testament. This was the genesis of the research project that eventually resulted in these two articles. By the end of 2014, I had a working manuscript where I had attempted to identify every reference to Satan in the NT, with recourse to the academic literature and my own exegesis to decide uncertain cases. I also included some statistical analysis of this data set. I had never published in biblical studies before and was then only a first year theology student. Knowing that most biblical studies journals have rejection rates in the 80% range, I knew submitting my manuscript to a journal would be a long shot. Enter Dr. Guy Williams. I had read his excellent monograph on The Spirit World in the Letters of Paul the Apostle (based on his Oxford University doctoral thesis) and had asked him some questions about it via email, and been impressed by his thoughtful replies. He had also humoured me by reading and commenting on some of my quasi-academic, but somewhat amateurish, online articles about Satan. I decided to send Guy my manuscript and ask him whether it looked remotely publishable to him, and if so whether he might be willing to collaborate with me to refine it into a publishable form. To my delight, he responded in the affirmative on both counts (while graciously offering to give feedback and still let me submit it myself). Better still, he had an idea for taking the project further by turning it into a two-part series which he would co-author. The first study would create the data set by identifying all New Testament references to Satan. The second study would then analyse the data statistically but also contextualize the analysis by looking at hermeneutical issues in New Testament Satanology. I enthusiastically agreed. In the end, I wrote most of the first article and Guy most of the second, but it really was a joint project as we offered each other useful input and suggestions at every stage of the writing and revision process. The effective collaboration we were able to develop despite sitting on separate continents and never meeting face to face is a testimony to the power of globalization. We submitted both articles to JSNT4 in May 2015. We heard back after the peer review process in November and were thrilled to receive a positive response. Both articles were accepted pending some revisions, the most significant of which was that we needed to interact more with German scholarship in our exegesis. (This is a standard requirement of the major biblical studies journals, and understandably so.) My German is very limited, but Guy can read German fluently and I can read French almost fluently, so we decided to bolster our literature search by consulting additional works in both these languages. Doing so proved very useful, as it helped us to identify some probable NT references to Satan that we had previously missed. Another issue was that our articles were too long for the journal, so we needed to find ways to cut down on the word count. This was achieved primarily by reducing the bibliographic material. We submitted our revised versions at the end of January 2016. The editorial process of preparing the articles for publication began in earnest in May. This, for me, was one of the best things about publishing. You get to have your work edited, copy-edited and proofread by experts for free. In the case of these two articles, the final versions are far superior to the original submissions in terms of style, compactness, and number of typo's and other errors. All told, the experience of publishing has been tremendously rewarding and enriching. However, it has also been a tremendous amount of work. I wouldn't want to guess the equivalent number of forty-hour work weeks that went into this project, but it was not a few. My heart's desire for the two articles is that they will make some contribution to the body of academic - and ecclesial - knowledge about the New Testament, and that they will lead to other opportunities for writing and research. I've already embarked on my next academic writing project - this time going solo, and on a completely different topic. We'll see how it turns out! 1 I have been a co-author on a couple of other published articles/notes where my contribution involved probability and statistics, not biblical studies. See here, here and here. 2 His publications include The Spirit World in the Letters of Paul the Apostles: A Critical Examination of the Role of Spirit Beings in the Authentic Pauline Epistles (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009); An Apocalyptic and Magical Interpretation of Paul's ‘Beast Fight’ in Ephesus (1 Corinthians 15:32) (Journal of Theological Studies, 2006); Narrative Space, Angelic Revelation, and the End of Mark’s Gospel (Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2013); article on Romans in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011). 3 The issue has not been printed yet as I write this, but the articles have been published online already. 4 As an amateur biblical scholar, one would need to choose a journal with a double-blind peer review process in which the reviewers do not know the identity or qualifications of the author. The manuscript is evaluated solely on its own merits. That said, the double-blind policy is not intended as an invitation to submit substandard material. To avoid disappointing oneself and burdening editors, it is a good idea to collaborate with an established scholar, especially for one's first publication. Posted by Tom 0 comments Labels: amateur biblical scholarship, biblical studies, journal, New Testament, peer review, publishing All the amēn sayings of Jesus in a table I've lately being doing some analysis of Jesus' amēn sayings. Jesus' tendency in the Gospels to begin sayings with amēn legō humin ('Truly I say to you') is one of the most distinctive features of his teaching style, and undoubtedly historically authentic.1 There is scholarly debate over whether this saying formula was unique to Jesus,2 as well as its linguistic background. One intriguing hypothesis is that Jesus took it from the expression ē/ei mēn in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible)3 and translated it into Aramaic, whence it was transliterated back into Greek.4 New Testament scholars are generally agreed that the formula adds emphasis and solemnity to a saying.5 I would not want to suggest that sayings of Jesus prefaced with the amēn formula are of a different order of importance from those prefaced simply with 'I say to you'. Nevertheless, in honour of this distinctive and majestic formula used by our Lord, I am reproducing in a single table all of the amēn sayings of the Gospels. I hope it may prove useful for further study. The sayings are quoted in the World English Bible, not because it is such a great translation but because the table was generated using a computer program, and the World English Bible is freely available in a text file format, which facilitated this. There are 79 amēn sayings all together.6 Where an identical or nearly identical amēn saying occurs in multiple Gospels, it is quoted only once, but the parallel is noted.7 Hence there are 63 entries in the table. A few linguistic and statistical notes about the sayings are included beneath the table for those who may be interested. Some think the amēn sayings are Christologically significant, telling us something profound about Jesus' self-understanding. I tend to agree. It is quite possible that the use of this emphatic formula contributed to the crowds' reaction to Jesus' teaching recorded in Matt. 7:28-29: 'And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.' World English Bible Translation Matt. 5:18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. Read in context Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny. Matt. 6:2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel. Matt. 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come. Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them. He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. Matt. 24:2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down." Matt. 24:47 (par. Luke 12:448) "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has. Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.' But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.' "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.' Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation." Mark 9:1 (par. Matt. 16:28; Luke 9:279) He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power." Mark 9:41 (par. Matt. 10:42) For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. Mark 10:15 (par. Matt. 18:3; Luke 18:17) Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." Mark 10:29-30 (par. Luke 18:29-30) Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. Mark 11:23 (par. Matt. 21:21) For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. Mark 12:43-44 (par. Luke 21:3-410) He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on." Mark 13:28-30 (par. Matt. 24:32-34; Luke 21:29-32) "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near; even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen. Mark 14:9 (par. Matt. 26:13) Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her." Mark 14:18 (par. Matt. 26:21; John 13:21) As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me--he who eats with me." Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God." Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. Luke 4:25-2611 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God." Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness. Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door. Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him. Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me." Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go." Further statistical and linguistic notes about the sayings Matthew contains the most amēn sayings (31), followed by John (25), Mark (13) and Luke (10). The Johannine Jesus always uses a double 'amēn amēn'. This double formula doesn't occur outside John except as a textual variant in Matt. 6:2, Luke 4:24, Luke 18:17. In Luke 9:27, 12:44 and 21:32, instead of amēn we find the adverb alēthōs, 'truly'.12 In Luke 4:25 we find ep' alētheias, 'of a truth'. These are the only instances where the (presumed) original Aramaic word אמן has been translated rather than transliterated. They help to confirm the meaning of amēn in the other sayings. I have still counted them as amēn sayings. There are 70 cases where the pronoun 'you' is plural (humin), indicating Jesus is addressing a group, and nine cases where the pronoun 'you' is singular (soi), indicating Jesus is addressing an individual.13 The three individual people who have the distinction of being the addressee of a canonical amēn saying are Peter, Nicodemus, and le bon larron. The word order of the formula almost never changes. The only exceptions are Luke 9:27 (where alēthōs occurs at the end rather than the start of the formula - literally 'I say to you truly') and Luke 23:43 (where soi and legō are transposed - literally 'Truly to you I say'). 1 'There can be no doubt that the expression is a historically authentic expression of Jesus' (Aune, David E. (1983). Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, p. 165.) I simply mean that historical Jesus is very likely to have actually used such a formula when teaching, while acknowledging that the term 'authentic' has now become very controversial in historical Jesus research. See, e.g., Keith, Chris (2016). The Narratives of the Gospels and the Historical Jesus: Current Debates, Prior Debates and the Goal of Historical Jesus Research. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 38(4), 426-455. 2 In Hebrew, אמן was generally used responsorially. However, Strugnell draws attention to a 7th century B.C. Hebrew potsherd where the word seems to introduce a saying. He translates: 'and all my brethren will answer for me (i.e., on my behalf), those who were harvesting with me in the heat of the sun, ALL my brethren will answer for me. Truly ('mn), I am innocent of gu[ilt; pray return] my garment' (Strugnell, John (1974). "Amen, I say unto you" in the Sayings of Jesus and in Early Christian Literature. Harvard Theological Review, 67(2), 177-190; here p. 178.) He is responding to other scholars who had claimed that amen is used responsorially here, i.e. 'my brethren will answer me "Amen."' The amēn I say to you formula also occurs in Recension A of the Testament of Abraham, a Jewish pseudepigraphic work. However, it is disputed whether the saying there is independent of Christian influence (Lee, Sang-Il. (2012). Jesus and Gospel Traditions in Bilingual Context: A Study in the Interdirectionality of Language. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 352). Allison, for instance, thinks it is a Christian interpolation (Allison, Dale C. (2003). Testament of Abraham. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 389). 3 Both these Greek expressions mean something like 'surely'. For example, 'Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.' (Num. 14:28 LXX, Brenton translation). LXX occurrences of ē mēn are Gen. 22:17; 42:16; Ex. 22:7, 10; Num. 14:23, 28, 35; Job 13:15; 27:3; Isa. 45:23. LXX occurrences of ei mēn are Job 1:11; 2:5; Ezek. 33:27; 34:8; 35:6; 36:5; 38:19. 4 This is argued by Lee (op. cit.). A Septuagint background to the term was originally proposed by Berger, Klaus. (1970). Die Amen-wort Jesu. Berlin: de Gruyter. 5 'There is a consensus that the ἀμήν-formula in the sayings by Jesus in the four gospels refers to emphasis and solemnity.' (Lee, op. cit., p. 356.) 6 amēn occurs as a textual variant in the sayings of Luke 7:9, 7:28 and John 6:56, but since they are excluded in the NA28 critical text, I have not counted them. In Matt. 18:19, some manuscripts lack amēn, but NA28 retains it (albeit in square brackets indicating its dubious authenticity), so I have counted it. 7 If an amēn saying has a parallel in which the word amēn is lacking, this parallel is not cited. 8 NA28 has alēthōs rather than amēn here. However, this is semantically equivalent: alēthōs is a translation whereas amēn is a transliteration. See discussion below. 9 Luke 9:27 has has alēthōs rather than amēn here. However, this is semantically equivalent: alēthōs is a translation whereas amēn is a transliteration. See discussion below. 10 Luke 21:4 has alēthōs rather than amēn here. However, this is semantically equivalent: alēthōs is a translation whereas amēn is a transliteration. See discussion below. 11 Luke 4:25 has ep' alētheias rather than amēn here. However, this is semantically equivalent: alēthōs is a translation whereas amēn is a transliteration. See discussion below. 12 In Luke 9:27, alēthōs occurs at the end of the formula rather than the beginning, and some manuscripts insert hoti before the content of the saying, indicating that the adverb is part of the saying itself, rather than part of the introductory formula. However, NA28 does not retain this hoti, and given that Luke is here relying on Mark 9:1 as a source (where we find an amēn saying), alēthōs is probably playing the role of amēn. In Luke 12:44, some manuscripts have amēn instead of alēthōs. Hence, Luke 21:32 is the only case where we can say with certainty that alēthōs has taken the place of amēn. 13 The nine individual instances are Matt. 5:26, 26:34, Mark 14:30, Luke 23:43, John 3:3, 3:5, 3:11, 13:38, 21:18. Labels: amēn, amen sayings, Gospels, Jesus, statistics, table Welcome to the personal blog of Thomas Farrar. Content consists mainly of biblical studies, theology and Church history written at a semi-technical level. I am a Canadian residing in Cape Town, South Africa. I was received into the Roman Catholic Church at the 2017 Easter Vigil, having previously been a Baptist and, before that, a Christadelphian. 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__label__wiki	0.721789	0.721789	Home/Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal News Stories, Dinosaur Fans, Main Page/Pterosaur Named after Avatar Dragon Pterosaur Named after Avatar Dragon Ikrandraco avatar – New Species of Cretaceous Pterosaur Described An international team of palaeontologists have described a new species of flying reptile that lived in what is now China during the Cretaceous period, about 120 millions years ago, and named it after the flying dragon-like creatures from the 2009 movie blockbuster directed by James Cameron – Avatar. The fossils, which have both been laterally compressed, were found at two separate sites, around fifteen miles apart, although one is smaller than the other, they have both been assigned to a single new species – Ikrandraco avatar, the name translates as “Ikran dragon from Avatar”. One of the Newly Described Pterosaur Fossils White scale bar = 5cm Picture Credit: Scientific Reports/Xiaolin Wang et al Both fossils come from the Jiufotang Formation of north-eastern China (Liaoning Province), although the exact stratigraphic location for both specimens has been difficult to determine. The larger of the two specimens indicates a wingspan in excess of 2.4 metres, making this flying reptile slightly larger than a Golden Eagle. The lower jaw had a distinct, semi-circular crest on its anterior portion, it has been suggested that a large “hook” at the back of this structure helped to support either an enlarged throat or a pouch, broadly similar to that seen in extant Pelicans. The joint Chinese and Brazilian research team that studied the fossil material and published the scientific paper on the new discoveries, propose that this Pterosaur probably fed on small fish. It may have flown over the water catching prey by skimming its lower jaw into the water. Once the jaw connected with a fish, it snapped shut and the fish was stored in the throat pouch prior to swallowing. This type of feeding, a skimming over the water surface to collect fish approach has been proposed before for members of the Pterosaur family. To read an article written by Everything Dinosaur team members back in 2007, click on the link here: Pterosaur Feeding Habits – Could they Skim Surface Waters for Fish? Dr. Alexander Kellner of the Federal Univervisty (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), one of the senior authors of the academic paper and an authority on Cretaceous Pterosaurs commented: “Ikrandraco didn’t have a crest on the top of its elongated head as many Pterosaurs did. Behind the lower jaw crest was a hook-like structure that appears to have been the anchor point for the throat pouch.” The Jiufotang Formation is a member of the extensive Jehol Group and scientists have been able to build up an detailed picture of the environment that existed in this part of the world in the Early Cretaceous. Although the exact age of the Jiufotang Formation is still debated, most observers now believe that the majority of the strata was laid down in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian faunal stage). A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur stated: “It is now thought that the highly fossiliferous rocks of this part of the world were laid down around 120 million years ago.” Ikrandraco avatar exhibits a number of anatomical characteristics that suggest it was a piscivore. For example, the teeth in the jaw are small, sharp and pointed, ideal for grabbing and holding slippery fish. The unusual blade-like crest on the lower jaw reminded the scientists of the crests seen on the dragon like creatures in the 2009 movie Avatar. Creature from a Film Inspires Pterosaur Name Note the long, orange coloured crest on the lower jaw Picture Credit: 20th Century Fox Most flying reptile fossils have been found in marine strata. However, over the last twenty years or so an increasing amount of Pterosaur fossil material has been found in rocks that were laid down inland. A number of different Pterosaur types co-existed in this part of China around 120 million years ago, intriguingly, these reptiles shared the air with a large number of primitive, enantiornithine birds. The habitat was a tropical paradise, with verdant forests and a great many, large bodies of freshwater that teemed with fish. Fossils found in this region include feathered dinosaurs (Saurischian as well as Ornithischian), early mammals, frogs, turtles, fish and birds. Commenting on the habitat, Dr. Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a co-author of the scientific paper stated: “It [Ikrandraco] lived in a warm region teeming with life that included feathered dinosaurs, birds, mammals and frogs along with a variety of trees and other plants.” An Artist’s Impression of Ikrandraco avatar (Early Cretaceous of North-eastern China) A flock of Ikrandraco Pterosaurs “fishing”. Picture Credit: Chuang Zhao Of the 130 or so genera of Pterosaur described to date, a number of them are known to have had skull or jaw crests. These crests were either made of bone or formed by a combination of bone and soft tissue. However, Ikrandraco avatar is unique in that it only had a crest on its lower jaw (mandible). There is no evidence of a crest on the skull or upper jaw. Up until now, blade-like crests were known exclusively in the Anhangueria family and in Cimoliopterus cuvier with such crests also noted in Ludodactylus sibbicki (although the evidence of a blade-like crest in this species is debated). The researchers also note that Cearadactylus atrox (an ornithocheirid from Brazil), also possessed a crest, but only on the front portion of the upper jaw (the premaxilla). The crest configuration of a crest on the skull but none on the mandible is much more common in the Pterosauria. In essence, skull crests are far more common than crests on the jaws and a single, lower jaw crest in a species was unheard of until Ikrandraco came along. The Second Specimen of Ikrandraco avatar Scale bar = 5cm The photograph and line drawing above shows the second referred specimen of I. avatar. The crest on the lower jaw with its distinctive “hook” at the back (labelled dcr – dentary crest) can clearly be made out. As the specimens were found around fifteen miles apart, it could be that these two fossils represent different, but closely related species. However, the researchers discounted this as both specimens were preserved in a left lateral view and although flattened, the team did not record any observable anatomical differences. Both specimens revealed evidence of a unique, hook-like structure at the back of the blade-like crest. This could have served as an anchor point for soft tissues that made up either an extended throat or a pouch. The presence of throat sacs (pouches) in Pterosaurs has been proposed on numerous occasions. The suggestions have been made for Late Jurassic species from the famous Solnhofen deposits of southern Germany. It has been suggested that both Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus had pouches. In all previously described cases, the pouch starts at the posterior ventral part of the mandible and extends until the level of the third or fourth neck bones (cervical vertebrae). Due to the difficulties of preservation of such structures, their properties, size and shape are disputed. Some palaeontologists have proposed that these pouches were similar to those seen in extant Pelicans, others have used the more neutral term of “loose extensible skin”. These protagonists argue that this gullet structure might have helped them swallow larger prey items whole, as seen in modern day Ostriches, for example. It is interesting to note that the inspiration for the scientific name came from the movie Avatar. Next year sees the release of Jurassic World, the fourth movie in the extremely successful Jurassic Park franchise. Although a closely guarded secret, the film is very likely to include a super-sized, apex predator with a large number of teeth. We at Everything Dinosaur confidently predict that whatever the film makers come up with, it will one day be the inspiration behind the naming of another prehistoric animal that is new to science. By Mike\| 2014-09-15T10:49:31+00:00 September 15th, 2014\|Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal News Stories, Dinosaur Fans, Main Page\|0 Comments	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line279
__label__cc	0.67191	0.32809	You are here: Home / Human Rights / Attorney General’s report on the Ontario Human Rights Review, 2012 Part 1 By Lauren Bride \| 2 Minutes Read November 14, 2012 Attorney General’s report on the Ontario Human Rights Review, 2012 Part 1 Image: www.ohrc.on.ca The Attorney General of Ontario released a report last week on the Ontario Human Rights Review for 2012. While both the Attorney General and the Ontario Human Rights Commission both function within the greater Ontario government, this review was created independently of government agency, with the aim to examine how the current system performs toward the highest goals to maintain justice, transparency, timeliness, and works against systemic discrimination. The Tribunal, the Commission, and the newly-created Human Rights Legal Support Centre make up a functioning triumvirate for legislative Human Rights in Ontario. In 2008, a widespread re-organization of the legislative bodies took place to improve the efficiency of the system. Looking at a track record for cases passed between the Commission and the Tribunal, the Attorney General also assessed the efficacy of the Centre, which was formed to provide legal assistance and support for people applying cases to the other two branches. It should be noted that the Centre has allowed for 85 percent of cases to reach resolution through mediation, before having to go to the Tribunal for a formal hearing, which speaks to the new approach of involving the subjects of cases more interactively in their cases, and moving away from a more antagonistic approach. It was thus recommended that the Centre’s funding receive a significant increase to better respond to the large number of cases it receives. Without reducing the observations to a single point, it can be said that the report found that these three branches would function better if there were on process dialogue between them. Making clear that the system as a whole functions well, and that the recommendations made were minor, they do need attention for the Ontario human rights system to move on to what he calls “the next level” of public service. The speed and smoothness of applications was suggested to increase – this finding applied to all three branches. The Attorney General pointed out that while most people do not engage with Ontario Human Rights at the case-level, the Code and its working organizations exist for everyone in Ontario, and everyone benefits from their existence and activities. Do you feel you have benefited directly or indirectly from the new Ontario Human Rights system? Why or why not? In the second part of this post that will be published next Monday, I will speak of conclusion of the report as it relates to employment in the private sector. Lauren Bride First Reference Human Resources and Compliance Editor Writer and editor at Hudson's Bay Company Lauren Bride, B.A. (English Literature / Philosophy) is a writer, copywriter, and editor, working in both fiction and nonfiction. She has done extensive writing and editing for commercial, private, and government clients, as well as story editing and fiction publication. Lauren also volunteers with the not for profit group NABORS (Toronto). Latest posts by Lauren Bride (see all) Ontario Human Rights Commission to update its policy on creed and religious observances - November 29, 2012 The control of the personal data ecosystem belongs to the individual - November 26, 2012 Report on the Ontario human rights review revisited:Concerns it may raise for employers - November 19, 2012 Article by Lauren Bride / Human Rights / Attorney General, employment law, Human Rights Legal Support Centre, human rights system, Mediation, Ontario human rights commission, Ontario Human Rights Review, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, public service, systemic discrimination Share with a friend or colleague Get the Latest Posts in your Inbox for Free! About Lauren Bride	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line280
__label__wiki	0.588332	0.588332	Professor & Director of the Mining Group Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Role Managed by: Dr Urvashi Ramphul e: Urvashi.Ramphul@perrettlaver.com Primary Practice Group: Higher Education and Research Salary & Benefits: Commensurate with experience Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) is a prestigious private university in Chile founded as a business school in 1953 and in 1988, it started operating as a university. At present, it has 12,400 students in 8 different schools located on three campuses: two in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, and the other in the coastal city of Viña del Mar. The Faculty of Engineering and Science (FES) is one of the leading schools of engineering in Chile, and it has experienced rapid growth over the last ten years. It has about 4,000 students and more than 100 full-time professors. The FES offers 7 undergraduate engineering degrees, in addition to its M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs. The FES brings together an open-minded community of scholars who combine fundamental and applied research meant to develop creative and innovative projects. These projects are expected not only to advance the frontier knowledge but also to contribute toward developing solutions that can help to reach our sustainable development goals as portrayed by our strategic plan (available at https://ingenieria.uai.cl/plan-fic/). The FES is now seeking to appoint a new Professor and Director of the Mining Group to provide visionary leadership and develop an innovative programme of research and teaching in smart and sustainable mining for the 21st Century. The appointee will exploit opportunities for interdisciplinary research by leveraging the Faculty’s existing strengths in relevant adjacent areas, including water, energy, systems engineering and data science, and in doing so will create opportunities for collaboration with industry partners. The successful candidate will demonstrate a track record of achievement in fundamental or applied research, with proven ability to secure substantial funding through competitive research grants and/or industrial/commercial sources. Faculty members at FES are expected to teach, in Spanish and/or English, undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil Engineering in Mining and related fields, supervise theses, conduct high quality research, publish in top international journals, submit research proposals to national, international and multinational funding organizations, and participate in outreach activities. Women and ethnic minority groups are encouraged to apply. Applications should consist of a full CV, together with a brief covering letter outlining how you meet the selection criteria in the job description. The deadline for applications is noon GMT on Monday 22nd February. Apply Now Download Further Details Back to search Email to a friend © Perrett Laver 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line288
__label__cc	0.668796	0.331204	'The Walking Dead' Season 10 Posted by Captain Comics on October 7, 2019 at 10:11pm in Movies and TV Oh, what a difference a week makes. Fear the Walking Dead is (temporarily) over, replaced by the far superior The Walking Dead. Not only was the show better, but my wife joined me. She refuses to watch FTWD and is actively angry at it. "How they could take a great idea like 'Walking Dead' and screw it up so badly is almost criminal," she huffed. And I couldn't agree with her more. Not that this episode was anything to write home about. It was a mostly table-setting exercise. But It had some interesting moments. Daryl is learning American Sign Language, and even has an ASL guide in his back pocket. Daryl is not exactly intellectually curious, so this is an obvious sign that he and Connie are destined for romance. Maybe now he'll wash his hair. (Or his wig, if that's what it is.) Aaron has apparently become something of a hothead, and much more of a warrior. Given his lack of hand, I expect a weapon on that stump shortly, and for the character to act out some Rick bits from the comics. He is apparently the leader of the communities' combined armed forces. Fun to see the new civilization go back to the past for their tactics and weaponry, including a shield wall straight out of Vikings. I was a bit let down by them trying to stop the forest fire. That's not smart, because it's really dangerous, and it's unlikely they'll affect the fire very much. We can't stop forest fires in the present, and we're using machines. They're using a bucket brigade. Their best use of manpower would be digging a ditch between their homes and the fire. The resultant ditch could later be re-purposed as a walker deterrent. Or a latrine. Also, it took them into Whisperers territory, which they are supposedly are avoiding, but do so a bunch of times in this episode, none of them necessary. And then Carol and Daryl do it for no good reason, and Alpha sees them. It's no more fun to see TV characters acting stupidly for the sake of the plot than it is to see comic book characters do the same. We've all seen it, and none of us like it, so why do writers keep doing it? Anyway, it looks like war. They should have let the forest burn. Permalink Reply by Jeff of Earth-J on March 30, 2020 at 12:04pm I think viewers took their cue from Ezekiel's reaction to her "dioramas" (I don't recall those from the comics...?), but it could have been an indication of a really sick individual or group. Permalink Reply by Jeff of Earth-J on October 6, 2020 at 10:35am The season finale (S10 E16) finally aired Sunday night! It's always a bit difficult for me to get back into the story after a lengthy hiatus, this time more than usual. Also, the ending of the comic book series provided me with a real sense of closure. If I understand correctly, there are now going to be six "bonus" episodes followed by the show's final season. Permalink Reply by Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod) on October 6, 2020 at 12:46pm I agree about the sense of closure in the comics. They do appear to be headed in the same direction on the show, though of course with a different cast of characters. Permalink Reply by Jeff of Earth-J on October 6, 2020 at 12:54pm I had a theory about the direction of the show, pre-COVID. The "Commonwealth" story, in the comics, seemed to me to be a call to vote. If the show had progressed along its original production line, that them may have emerged right around the time leading up to the November's Presidential election.Then again, given the slow nature of the way the plots unfold on the TV version (or maybe it just seems slow), maybe not. The Commonwealth's armored soldiers really remind me of Imperial storm troopers. I'm curious to find out more concerning Maggie's traveling companion. Permalink Reply by Luis Olavo de Moura Dantas on October 6, 2020 at 7:09pm The armor recalls the riot gear that some of the main characters used during their time in the prison, at roughly the same time when they met the Governor. It provided, naturally, considerable safety when travelling among walkers. It made a few appearances in the TV series as well, often as assorted pieces, and mainly in seasons 3 and 4. Glenn and Maggie used it most prominently in Season 4 episode "Inmates". Permalink Reply by Jeff of Earth-J on October 6, 2020 at 7:48pm Here is the armor used by the Commonwealth. And this is Maggie's new friend.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line290
__label__cc	0.571906	0.428094	Tag Archives: 40 Years in the Making: THe Magic Music Story 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie Posted on August 4, 2018 by carlosdev Old hippies just play on. (2017) Music Documentary (Paladin) Lee Aronsohn, George “Tode” Cahill, Lynn “Flatbush” Poyer, Kevin “CW” Millburn, Will “Wilbur” Luckey, Rob “Poonah” Galloway, Chris “Cemeto” Doyle, Bill “Das” Makepeace, Greg “Sloth” Sparre, Chris “Spoons” Daniel, Tamara Lester, Chuck Morris, Sam Bush, Julie Luckey, Steve “Spike” Clark, Olivia “Speedy” Luckey, Mary Jane Makepeace, Bill Payne, Scarlett Rivers. Directed by Lee Aronsohn There is a time in our lives which we inevitably link with certain musical styles and sounds. It might be the psychedelic noise of the 60s, the arena rock of the 70s, the new wave of the 80s, the grunge of the 90s or…well, you get the idea. We identify with the music and the era. In Boulder, Colorado in the early to mid-70s, particularly around the University of Colorado campus, the sound was heavily folk influenced with a kind of hippie aesthetic. Most symbolic of these bands was a group called Magic Music, who had enough facial hair to make a Muslim smile in satisfaction and an affinity for flannel shirts which would make the grunge generation scratch their heads and say “I thought that was our thing.” Spoiler alert: the band never made it big, despite being hugely popular in Colorado and coming close on several occasions. Their unwillingness to bend on artistic matters as well as some self-torpedoing due to drugs, attitude or a distinct lack of business sense kept them from going to the next step. They broke up in 1975 with no records to their name. One of their biggest fans was TV producer/writer/creator Lee Aronsohn who was attending CU as a sex and drugs major. He went on to success in his field but over the years the music he heard as a young man stayed in his head. He wondered what happened to the band that so inspired him in his youth. Only one of them remained in the Boulder era; Chris Daniels who continued to play music there with a new band. Through him, Aronsohn was put in contact with the remaining members of the band (Lynn Poyer tragically passed away in 2011) and soon a new idea germinated; to get the band to reunite onstage, playing a one night stand at the 800 seat Boulder Theater. To everyone’s surprise, the show sold out. These are mostly interviews with the band members, former managers, girlfriends, wives, exes and fans. There isn’t any video footage of the band actually playing extant but there are quite a few still photos around and to Aronsohn’s delight some unreleased demos of the band in their heyday were found and used on the soundtrack. The demos accompany the stills, several of which have been animated into motion. That was a pretty nifty effect but as the story moves from the band’s past to the band’s present, those sorts of animations disappear from the film and I for one missed them. The band utilized some sweet harmonies (think America and Pure Prairie League) with some fairly standard but lovely folk rock (along the lines of Buffalo Springfield and James Taylor). The music is extremely dated largely due to the lyrics which were of the tree-hugging variety (the band at one time lived in school buses in the Rocky Mountain wilderness) with a generous helping of hippie “love is everything” type sweetness. Maybe a better secondary title for the film would be Smell the Patchouli!! Which reminds me: why do non-fiction book authors and documentary filmmakers find it necessary to title their works with unnecessary and often unwieldy secondary titles? Every time I see a colon in a title I feel a sense of rage. Do these authors and filmmakers think that this kind of titling makes their work sound more academic? Knock it off, y’all. It just makes you sound pretentious. Mini-rant aside, the filmmaking is pretty solid here. Yes, there are plenty of talking heads but for the most part the band members are charming and sweet-natured. While there were some rifts within the band, for the most part a lot of water has gone under the bridge; after all, there were more than forty years between live concert appearances. 40 years an bring an awful lot of perspective even to the most angry and bitter of feelings. This is very much a niche film. Most people outside of Colorado and not of a certain age group will have never heard of the band and even those that do, not all of them are going to be all that interested in taking a stroll down memory lane. Still, the band’s reunion does have a pretty good emotional punch and if seeing retired hippie chicks undulating in time to the music is your thing, then there’s reason enough to go catch this in and of itself. REASONS TO GO: The reunion scenes are pretty sweet. Early on I like what Aronsohn did with the motion stills. REASONS TO STAY: This is really intended for a niche audience. FAMILY VALUES: There is some profanity and plenty of drug references. TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Aronsohn has been responsible for such hit TV shows as Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. CRITICAL MASS: As of 8/4/18: Rotten Tomatoes: No score yet. Metacritic: No score yet. 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__label__wiki	0.598544	0.598544	Tag Archives: Queen Elizabeth II Flush Royal The announcement of the summit alarmed everyone. They didn’t know what to make of it. What would happen? So, as the key players gathered, many held their collective breath. Others dismissed it as the usual pomp and circumstance. Again, interested parties wondered, what would come of this? Was it another meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Had the World Court convened to mediate yet another dispute between Israel and Palestine? Did México’s president finally agree to pay for that border wall? No, it wasn’t anything that dramatic – except for the tabloids. Queen Elizabeth II had summoned members of her immediate family to discuss their royal duties. More specifically if Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, really did plan to step back from their title-bound obligations. And, once again, the American press focused so much of their time and energy on this sudden turn of events. Yet, amidst the chaos, I have to make a very simple inquiry: WHO CARES?! Seriously! With all due respect to my British friends, acquaintances and fellow writers and bloggers, the average American citizen doesn’t give a damn what happens with the British royal family! And I suspect many average Britons don’t care either. But here we are – AGAIN – with several American media outlets wasting more of their – and our – time telling us what that group of entitled bluebloods are doing. A while back they spent a great deal of time revealing that Prince Philip had decided to retire from his royal duties and remain at Buckingham Palace, the Windsor family’s primary abode; an 800-room monstrosity that dates to the 18th century. How does one retire from duties that really aren’t a job? My mother retired from the insurance industry at age 70. She gets two pensions, plus social security. She literally worked for half a century – dealing with gender and racial harassment; gossipy coworkers; rude customers; and unsavory managers. I recall her bringing work home sometimes, just so she could get caught up – although she didn’t get overtime. That was on top of helping my father raise me and tending to the house. She also had to deal with migraine headaches, which often struck in the midst of meetings and conference calls. Gosh, did Prince Philip have to deal with that shit? Ever since Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer wed in 1981, the American press has held an incredible fascination with the British monarchy. I have to concede that Diana had more class, grace and style than the entire Windsor family combined. I’m actually glad that her sons, William and Harry, inherited both her looks and her sense of generosity. But, if you take away all of their regal extravagance, the Windsors would qualify as little more than trailer park trash here in the U.S. And, in all fairness, I’ve known people who lived in trailer parks and had more class than the Windsor clan. Since the United States has such a close relationship with Great Britain – it’s from their tight grasp that we were born – I suppose it’s natural many of my fellow citizens would be enamored with British royalty. After all, we aren’t similarly obsessed with the royal families of India, Japan, the Netherlands, or Spain. But, as an average American whose taxes help fund the livelihood of the First Family (in this case, the Trumps, already among the wealthiest families in the world), I have to point out that it is average Britons whose tax money funds the livelihoods of the Windsor family. While Great Britain suffered through severe economic downturns in the immediate aftermath of World War II and through subsequent national events – such as IRA bombings and coal miner strikes – money was still being sucked out of the paychecks of working people so the Windsors could move from one grand home to another and gallop across the globe. It’s British taxpayers who finance those extravagant state dinners at Buckingham Palace where only the rich and powerful can partake of exquisite meals. Twenty years ago Prime Minister Tony Blair made a concerted attempt to tackle child poverty in the U.K. At the time officials estimated approximately 34% of children in Great Britain lived in households impacted by poverty. Blair’s goal was eliminate poverty – or at least severely reduce it – within a generation. Sadly, results have been mixed. But at least he tried. The U.S. president is more intent on spending billions of American dollars (tax-payer money) to build a wall along our southern border to keep all those varmint Mexicans out. Never mind that my Indian and Spanish ancestors had dominated the region long before there was a United States or a Trump family. That, of course, is a different history. I suspect much of the child poverty in England could be resolved by pulling money out of the coffers of the Windsors and inserting into health and education programs specifically aimed at children and working families. The U.S. could do something similar with taxes levied against the largest corporations and wealthiest families who already don’t pay much in taxes. Families who – much like the Trump clan – feel they’re somehow entitled to their luxurious lifestyles; an existence for them that comes at the expense of we lowly peons who struggle with increasing costs of living on a daily basis. I don’t know what will come of the aforementioned “royal summit” and, of course, I DON’T CARE! Plenty of English citizens are opposed to the Windsors and to the general concept of a royal family. We certainly know what France and Russia did to their monarchies. I don’t wish a similar fate to befall the Windsors. But it wouldn’t hurt them to relinquish Buckingham Palace to the city of London to be transformed into a museum. Their plethora of jewels possibly could fund complete renovations of every single school building in the U.K. Elizabeth and Philip could sell off the bulk of their homes, and the entire clan could settle quietly into a single multi-room estate and write books about their privileged lives as a source of income. See! If we average people ruled the world, there would be no war, poverty, sick and hungry children or overpriced state dinners. And everyone would have a place at the table! Tagged as British monarchy, England, Great Britain, Meghan Markle, poverty, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Prince Philip, Princess Diana, privilege, Queen Elizabeth II, royal families, United Kingdom, wealth, Windsors June 6, 2012 · 10:51 PM Photographs of Queen Victoria Great Britain is in a perpetual state of celebration, as Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on the English throne. She is only the 2nd monarch in British history to commemorate a “Diamond Jubilee.” Queen Victoria was the first who reigned for 64 years atop the British throne before her death in 1901. She almost single-handedly reshaped British culture and gave us the term “Victorian.” Towards the end of her life, photography was becoming an art form, and we’re fortunate there were countless pictures made of her. These are just a few, which include her husband, Prince Albert, and their 6 children. With Prince Albert during their wedding With her four oldest children, from left: Albert, Edward, Bertie and Alice In an open coach, 1894 With all six of her children With Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, back left With Prince Albert, 1854 With Princess Beatrice Filed under Classics Tagged as British monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line296
__label__wiki	0.780063	0.780063	Carrera Region – Porsche Club of America It's not just the cars, it's the people! Track events – HPDE and AX Info and References Carrera Region history PCA Code of Ethics and Conduct Zone 9 and PCA Goodie Store Member Content Submission Carrera Region – Porsche Club of America was born on Wednesday, June 29th, 1966 when then PCA president, Burt Propp, presented the Region Charter scroll, emblazoned with the golden PCA seal, to Carrera Region’s charter president, Claud Gilmore, as members of the Porsche family looked on in approval. The name of our Region, “Carrera“, which means “race” in both Italian and Spanish languages, comes from the legendary Mexican North to South, border-to-border road race “La Carrera Panamericana“. The race was very similar to the legendary Mille Miglia and Targa Florio races held in Italy. The grueling automotive spectacle originally occurred as an annual event from 1950 to 1954 beginning in El Paso’s sister city, Juarez, Mexico, just across the international border. The finish line was reached six days and 3,373 kilometers later after driving through dense forests and jungles at the southern-most city of Cuauhtemoc, Chiapas at the border of Mexico and Guatemala. The race was so incredibly challenging, it instantly became synonymous with the title, “The world’s most dangerous race”. This was due to its formidable and unforgiving course plan and because the spectacle was cloaked in tragedy when three drivers and one spectator lost their lives during the inaugural race in 1950. With legendary German race car driver Hans Hermann at the wheel of a stock four-cam, 110 horsepower, 550 Spyder, Porsche won its first off-road rally race in the 1500cc class at the running of the 1954 La Carrera Panamericana. In fact, two factory-stock Porsche 550 Spyders finished in third and fourth places behind two purpose-built 12-cylinder Ferrari’s that same year. This amazing feat prodded the tiny little Porsche race car into the worldwide limelight. Soon thereafter, and with its chest still rightfully bursting with pride, Porsche began naming some of its sports cars after the infamous cross-country race. The success of the Porsche 550 Spyders at the 1954 La Carrera Panamericana directly influenced the success of race driver Humberto Maglioli’s commanding 15-minute overall victory at the 1956 Targa Florio in Italy. It was Porsche’s first overall victory in an international race with the 550 Spyder. Today, you can still purchase a new Porsche 911 Carrera with our Region’s name proudly emblazoned across its engine cover! Carrera Region is very proud of our racing heritage and we are extremely grateful to Porsche A.G. for allowing us to keep our PCA Region name. Our region members are quick to confess that of the 145 Regions in Porsche Club of America, we are the only Region to have a Porsche-branded name as our club moniker! Lying within the expansive area that is PCA’s Zone 9 footprint, the boundaries of Carrera Region span seven counties in far west Texas and it encompasses all seven of New Mexico’s southern-most counties. Our sprawling footprint stretches from the Midland/Odessa area on our eastern border, all the way out west to the Arizona border, and from the US/Mexico border in the south, up to Roadrunner Region’s border, just to our north in Albuquerque, NM. Our region membership is currently at around 100 registered members of which about 75 to 80 active members regularly participate in various club events. We are very proud to say that we still have a few charter members, from the original club in 1966, in our ranks! Carrera Region is active in community and charity events, many of which receive national visibility. A couple of the more notable charity events we participate in are “The Susan G. Komen Walk For The Cure” and “Walk To End Alzheimer’s”. The club has many members who participate regularly in Sports Car Club of America sanctioned events and we continue to foster a close relationship with the Pan American Region of the SCCA. We offer sanctioned car clubs the opportunity to participate in many Carrera Region social and track events throughout the year. Carrera Region has earned many PCA National accolades over the last several years including a 4th place and two 2nd place awards in the rigorous Region t-shirt competition. Finally in 2012, some of the hard work paid off when we won a first-place trophy in the t-shirt design competition at Porsche Parade. In 2013, Carrera Region proudly teamed-up with SVT Mustang Elite, a premier Ford Shelby car club in El Paso, to raise money in support of a local fledgling no-kill animal shelter, here in our hometown. A big-time win for El Paso! Years of dedicated spirit and back-breaking determination culminated in a very hard earned National first place trophy in the Level-1 Region Website Competition. The honor was awarded to Carrera Region during Porsche Parade in 2014 at Jay Peak, Vermont. In 2016, Carrera Region earned another National award coming in second place for factored membership growth in a Region over the previous year. That’s a HUGE accomplishment for any Region, but especially for a small region such as our own! Another amazing pinnacle of exceptional dedication occurred during Porsche Parade 2017 at Spokane, Washington when Carrera Region was, once again, awarded the prestigious PCA National first place trophy in the Level-1 Region Website Competition. We are very proud of our accomplishments and our racing heritage. We look forward to taking our Region into the next chapters of its success in the years ahead! We hope you will join us to be a part of the excitement! Contact Carrera Region, at carreraregionpca@hotmail.com, for more information. Porsche Parade 2019 PCA Treffen North America Porsche Cars North America PCA Homepage Zone 9 PCA Redline Racing El Paso, TX Dynatec Scientific Laboratories El Paso, TX El Paso Veterinary Supply	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line301
__label__wiki	0.67782	0.67782	MAN OF SUBSTANCE by Dana Sullivan Kilroy, Staff Writer, California Business Journal Mits Arayama Mits Arayama is legendary for bringing Cup Noodles to the U.S. from Japan. Today, he continues to stretch his legacy as a well-rounded, passionate and caring businessman. By Rick Weinberg, California Business Journal He will never bring it up himself. He’s just too humble and selfless to discuss his impeccable career, his amazing rise from marketing director to CEO and creating a product — and marketplace — that completely altered the landscape of the ultra fast food industry. Mits Arayama – that’s a name that every college student in the ‘70s and ‘80s should know about and recognize. All Arayama did was “save” them when he brought Cup Noodles to the United States from Japan. College students, in particular, feasted on the product, which quickly made its way into homes, transforming the marketplace. Now Arayama is building a new chapter. When he retired at the age of 62 as CEO of Nissin Foods in 2005, he pondered his next venture. He could have simply retired and spent his days on the golf links and fishing on the Southern California shores. But he wasn’t ready. He did, however, want to leave the food industry – and corporate America — completely behind. He fell back to his love for marketing and visual print media. He was, after all, responsible for the complete packaging and marketing of Nissin Foods for decades. He explored and researched several options. The one that excited him the most was purchasing a Minuteman Press franchise in the picturesque seaside town of Dana Point, Calif. for $150,000 and working with his son, Simon. He also carved out a strategic marketing plan – to no one’s surprise — to help boost the business, starting with his deep involvement in networking groups. The plan worked out perfectly. Today, Arayama sits atop of his new industry, locally and nationally, having captured Business of the Year and Businessman of the Year awards through various organizations. He even captured a special honor from the Board of Directors at the Dana Point Chamber of Commerce that had not been given out for 10 years. “He’s so gracious and sincere,” Dan Byers, Minuteman Press Regional Vice President for Southern California, says of Arayama. “I still remember the day I met him and the positive feelings I had about him right from the get-go. His sincerity comes through at the very first handshake. His graciousness and sincerity is why he’s so likeable.” Arayama comes from the special group of people who are not initially thinking, “What can I sell you?” Rather, he comes from the total opposite side, thinking, “What can I do to help you, how can I help your business, how can I help you make it more profitable?” He genuinely cares about people and their businesses – he strives to educate them with his knowledge and expertise in marketing and branding, spending countless hours with customers to learn their business and customer base, inside and out. Arayama’s business offers everything in printing and marketing from design to expert consultation in branding, logos and messaging. “There is a negative stereotype that goes along with sales,” Byers says, “but Mits doesn’t embody any of those things. You wouldn’t know about his background with Nissin because he’s so unassuming. You can’t help but be impressed. To introduce a new product to another country and go up against an American corporate giant like Campbell’s, well … if you can successfully introduce dehydrated noodles in a cellophane packet, I’m sure you can do anything.” It’s quite fascinating how Arayama wound up choosing Minuteman Press over other business opportunities he had in front of him. Ten years ago, “everything began to move towards digital printing,” Arayama says. He saw that Minuteman Press International was following industry trends and innovations carefully and closely. He was impressed, particularly since the company was rated first in its category by Entrepreneur Magazine for 12 consecutive years and 24 times overall. “It was easy for me to make the jump,” he says. As much as anything, Arayama relishes the freedom he has an entrepreneur. On his way to the “big office” at Nissin, Arayama admits he was “highly micromanaged from taste and visual to advertising and marketing.” For the last decade, however, he realizes now that “being an entrepreneur lets me be more independent,” he says. “I didn’t particularly enjoy reporting to corporate headquarters for every little thing. I preferred to control my own destiny.” With Minuteman Press International, he gets to do that, thanks to the support and resources the company provides to back him up. Now he has become the standard by which the corporation measures its franchises’ successes. “Many new business owners like me came from corporate environments, but here, in an entrepreneurial environment like this, you are the salesman as well as the president and the janitor. It’s all yours. It’s really a blast. I love it. It’s night and day from the other world I lived in — and equally as enjoyable.” 24721 La Plaza, Suite A www.danapoint.minutemanpress.com Minuteman Press Franchise Opportunities www.minutemanpressfranchise.com Tags: advertisingAmericaAmericanbrandingCACaliforniaCEOcollegeCorporationCup NoodlesDan ByersDana PointentrepreneurfoodfranchisegolfGroupindependentmarketingmarketplaceMinuteman PressMits ArayamanetworkingRamensalesmanSouthern California RENTS NEAR UCLA EXCEED $4,300, 80% ABOVE MARKET RATE Dana Sullivan Kilroy, Staff Writer, California Business Journal Dana Sullivan Kilroy has written for such prestigious publications as Fast Company, The New York Times, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, O/The Oprah Magazine, ESPN and The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of UCLA with a degree in English Literature, Dana also works with the Nevada Museum of Art and the Reno Philharmonic on social media strategies. She is also a Director The Ferraro Group.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line310
__label__wiki	0.713707	0.713707	Children of Liberty call out Alliance Hypocrisy A group calling itself the 'Children of Liberty' has made a public statement concerning the Alliance and what they call its “rampant hypocrisy”. The group claims that a "huge gulf" exists between the Alliance's professed goals and values and the reality present in many of its member systems. "For an organization that purports to be devoted to the ideals of liberty and self-determination", the release stated, "the Alliance certainly tolerates a great deal of despotism and tyranny within its own borders. It's about time the Alliance addressed the rampant hypocrisy of allowing dictatorships – as well as other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government – membership into their supposed bastion of freedom and liberty." The statement went on to list a number of Alliance-sponsored autocracies in various systems, and called on the Alliance and its supporters to sponsor serious democratic reform in said systems by backing democratically-aligned factions over autocratic ones. Commander Virgil Kyle	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line312
__label__wiki	0.848042	0.848042	Alliance Tournament EVE Vegas Fleet Fight Notification Third Party Developers Test Servers Download EVE Submit Fansite Current CSM Sign up for ISD My Bug Reports Stories of New Eden > Backstory > Chronicles "The Greatest Joke" - Sit down, please. He's sitting on his bed, head in hands. All bravado has gone out of him. His hands, now rubbing his eyes, don't feel like they belong to him anymore. They feel like ghosts, attached to him by some strange mechanism he has no control over. He doesn't want to look up, because he'll see the pictures on the walls – of loved ones lost, of glories past – and he will remember how alone he is. There's a certificate there, too, somewhere, for working in deep-space environments. He worked as a miner on asteroids, an incredibly dangerous task that paid well. The men in his family worked in the same way, and most of them have died. He's the last one, of the men, of the family, of everything. And soon, he’ll be gone as well. And yet ... and yet he knows that it doesn't matter, if he'll only allow his grief to fall away like the old skin it is. He doesn't want to take his mind off it, because that'll only mean he's running away. Instead, he focuses; he gazes inward with a burning stare, willing himself to look his fate directly in the eye. He doesn't blink. He doesn't blink. After a while, he feels something give way under the force of his stare, and his mood shifts from victimization to purpose. He accepts the joke of life. He feels the sorrow lift from him. He begins to feel that nothing is impossible. He starts browsing through pamphlets. Instant response to most of them is to toss them in the garbage. There's nothing they can do for him that'll change things, nothing they can tell him that he doesn't already know. When he gets to the card from the Sisters, he almost throws it away like everything else. Then he notices what the card actually says. The card has a phone number, and below that, the line, "This is not what you think." He frowns, and calls the number. When a voice answers, it asks him how he got the contact info. He's silent for a little while. The voice waits patiently. Then he starts telling it who he is and what has happened. The voice came from a TV box. There was an avatar on the screen: his AI doctor. You didn't get a human doctor unless you were a pilot, or willing to pay an exorbitant fee. - We've received the results of the blood test, the voice said. The avatar moved its lips in sync with the words, and didn't smile. That's when he knew it was serious. He meets the Sister at a café. Over a cup of tea, she makes him an offer. "The doctors are reliable," she says, stirring the tea with a spoon that she then sets aside. "They only give that card to people whose entire profiles - psych, medical, economy, everything - match what we're looking for. So we know you're right for us." "And now I need to know whether you're right for me," he replies, and sips his coffee. "Precisely," she says, and pulls out some boxes from her bag. They're each the size of a fist, identical, made of marble. "What I'm about to tell you might sound incredible," she continues, "but you'll need to take a lot of things on faith from now on. There are forces in this universe. Some of them good, some evil. Occult, even. And one of those forces, an evil one, is attempting to disrupt various spiritual lines, to influence the world in various ways. The Sisters have set up a task force to uproot it." He stares her directly in the eye. "I don't believe you," he says. "Actually, I think you're crazy, and those boxes probably contain the eyeballs of your past victims or something." She suppresses a grin and orders the boxes in front of him, three in a line. "Pick one." He does. She opens it. The box contains a small marble, purple and opaque. The instant he sees it, he's flooded with a sense of well-being. Worries melt away, acceptance and joy light up inside of him, and the future, bleak as it is, seems like the best thing that could happen to him. She closes the box, and the feeling fades away. She opens the other two boxes; they're empty. "Very few people respond," she says. "But I saw that you did. You're attuned to them, which means you can find them." "What do you want me to do?" he asks. "Look away," she says. He does, and hears her re-order the boxes. Eventually he looks back, points at one box, and it contains the marble. They do this several times, and he always picks the right box. Every time it's opened, it makes him feel alive and happy. Yet when it's closed he doesn't need more; he's content with that brief glimpse. He mentions this to the Sister, and she nods, clearly pleased. "I don't know what you saw," she says, "because it's different for everyone. I see snowflakes, gently drifting about inside the boxes. Other people see colours, and others can only tell by feel. Your mind picks whatever you can handle. "I want you to leave your life," she says. "Come with us. Help put things right. There aren't many people who can do what we're asking you to do." He's still not sure. Then again, he thinks, what does he have to lose? - The results are not good. I'm sorry, the AI said. He knew it wasn't sorry, that it was a liar. But he'd known that for a while now, and he accepted its preprogrammed response as a small comfort. He's aboard the Sisters' ship. They're in high sec space, scanning for something. He's started to feel the pangs of impatience but he pushes them down. It's true that he doesn't have any time to waste, but all that means is that a second spent on aggravation is a second wasted. He looks around, tries to take everything in as if for the first time. The metal walls and railings, the lights in the ceiling, the muted greys and greens worn by people around him. It's all rather low-key and subdued, and yet it's perfect, if only because it is. There's a shout, and the crew erupts in cheers. They've found a marker. He sat there stunned as the AI told him he had somewhere between six and eighteen standard months to live. It was nothing they could prevent; at some point the brain would simply stop sending the commands for lungs to inflate and heart to contract. His mind would decide it was time to stop. There had been some limited experiments with automatic equipment, a type of pacemaker, but in order for it to work he couldn't exert himself under any circumstance, nor meditate or relax. Never drink, never do anything that might cause any sort of deviation from the norm. Never watch movies, never fall in love. Nothing. -It's a choice between living and dying, the AI said, and he understood. The ship destroys every pirate it finds at the location, and its sensors pick up a trail. The Sister in charge, the same one who recruited him, is very pleased. "It's not always that we find it," she says, "and even then, we have no idea whether it'll lead us to the right spot." They move on. - There is a chance you might live longer. The six to eighteen months is a mean time; there is nothing except the basic laws of probability that says you couldn't live a full life. He thought about this. - So I might die in ten years? he asked. - Yes. - Or I might die tomorrow, he said. The AI watched him for a moment, then said, but chances are it will be within a year and a half. He didn't ask how many had lived past that. He didn't want to know. They've been through two more encounters. At least they've been lucky enough to find trails leading them deeper in. The Sister told him that sometimes the trail would grow cold and they'd have to go back to square one. They're chatting busily while strapped into their seats, waiting for the pilot to finish off the last pirate. Remaining unfettered in the middle of combat is just asking for a broken neck. The crew members to either side of him are arguing about whether this is the second or third encounter, one claiming that the first one shouldn't count, the other that it should. It's an utterly pointless argument, and he understands it so well. Anything to keep their minds off the fact that they could die at any moment, either burned to a crisp or flash-frozen in space, their eyes bursting out of their heads. There is a resounding boom as the last pirate is blown to shreds, then silence. Speakers crackle. "This is it, folks. We've found the trail again, and this time it looks like the mother lode." With bated breaths, they course toward their fate. And then, with no forewarning, he started to laugh. The AI was flummoxed. - Do you need me to turn off for a moment? - No, he said, still laughing. He knew it wasn't shock, at least not completely. It was acceptance, and it had hit him like a hammer. - Everything is clear now, he said. All the rules have been changed. The grand joke has come to its punchline at last. The AI remained silent, though he didn't know if it was out of respect for the dead, or merely because it had no routines to deal with this sort of reaction. - Everything is clear, he repeated. I only had one relative, you know. - I know, said the AI. - My grandmother. She died last year. I always admired her strength, her will to live in the moment, the simplicity she saw in things. I always tried to pare down my life to match that, cutting away the complexities. But that's just not something you can do. You can't ignore everything and force yourself to think simple. He was babbling now, but he couldn't imagine stopping. - True simplicity and purity of purpose comes only when you've faced all the complexities, and lived through them long enough – and deep enough – that you come through them, as if breaking through a barrier, and right out the other side. - And you've broken through a barrier? the AI asked. - I have now. You achieve simplicity not by keeping complexity away, but by embracing it, gladly giving yourself over to the torrents of life, and, laughing, realizing that it's all insignificant and that it holds no power over you, that life is one big joke with our death as the punchline and that no matter whether you find the joke funny or not it'll still be spoken right to the end, and that is the heart of humour and joy. He stopped, almost gasping for breath. The AI stared at him. - Would you like some pamphlets? it said at last. "Deploy! Deploy! Go, go, go!" They pour out, like blood spurting from a wound. Drones whizz past them in a battle frenzy. The pilot is keeping the pirates busy, keeping all attention focused on him. They were all hand-picked by Sisters operatives. Every one of them immediately zeroes in on the same broken-down husk. It looks the same as the myriad other wrecks floating about, but they know better. He's the first to reach it. It wouldn't show up on any scanner, that much is certain. It's a spherical thing, purple and opaque like the marble he saw, and surprisingly inert. Even when it's unconnected to anything, it doesn't seem to want to move. It takes three of them to pry it loose, and when they do, it feels like taking a splinter out of bare skin, like removing a thorn from the Lord's eye. The sphere calls to him, but the happiness it promises is laced with confusion, and he senses undercurrents of doubt and madness. He ignores its call the best he can, and focuses on getting the thing back to the ship. The Sisters have told him that the sphere will be purified. Instinctively, he knows that the item's placement here was intended to call hapless travelers, make this place into a death trap. But there's more at play than that. It feels like they've stumbled onto a dark tapestry, and managed to cut away one of the threads. He looks at his hands. They're shaking from the strain of removing the sphere. And they feel a part of him now. Inside his suit, he smiles. He accepted the pamphlets with good grace, got up, and walked quietly out of the office, heading towards his life.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0033.json.gz/line313

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