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Top 400 contractors are feeling no pain, ENR report says The nation's construction contractors are generally doing quite well, thank you. The Engineering News Record's list of Top 400 U.S. contractors based on revenue was released last month, and it provided a favorable diagnosis for the nation's construction economy a decade after the Great Recession. "The still-healthy market is evident in the results of this year's ENR Top 400 Contractors survey," the ENR said. "As a group, those firms generated a new record of $405 billion in contracting revenue in 2018, a significant increase of 8.3 percent from the 2017 total of $373.98 billion." The ENR added: "The construction market has been growing steadily for nearly 10 years, with no signs of stopping." Among the nation's top 100 contractors, the ENR's list has, for the entirely of this century, annually included two Michigan-based contractors: Southfield-based Barton Malow and Detroit-based Walbridge. It's more of the same this year, as Barton Malow (No. 40, down 12 spots from 2018) and Walbridge (No. 59, -11 spots compared to 2018) were Michigan's top contractors. But for the first time, they had company in the top 100: Lansing-based The Christman Co. jumped from No. 110 in 2018 to No. 93 this year. Other Michigan-based contractors that made the list include Aristeo Construction Co., Livonia, (No. 194, +5 vs. 2018); Rockford Construction Co., Grand Rapids (No. 243, +7); Commercial Contracting Corp., Auburn Hills, (No. 260, +21); Pioneer Construction, Grand Rapids (No. 268, +5); Granger Construction Co., Lansing (No. 305, -103); Wieland, Lansing, (No. 319, -43); Clark Construction Co., Lansing, No. 320, not on the 2018 list); Roncelli Inc., Sterling Heights (No. 340, -50) and Wolverine Building Group, Grand Rapids (No. 400, not on the 2018 list). Notable contractors that didn't make this year's list (or last year's), but that have in the past, include Sachse Construction, Detroit (No 393 in 2017) and George W. Auch, Pontiac (No. 394 in 2017). The list's 2019 top five U.S. contractors by revenue include, in order, Bechtel, Reston, Va.; Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas; Turner Corp., New York, N.Y.; Aecom, Los Angeles, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Baltimore. "Industry veterans know the market can't sustain this pace forever, but they are focused on the opportunities in front of them," the ENR said. Gilbane Building Co. Executive Vice President told the publication: "We all remember 2009-11 and don't want to see that again. So we as an industry are constantly wary, watching for signs of a downturn. But we don't see any yet."

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U.S. Supreme Court sides with employers workplace arbitration case By Celine McNicholas WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on May 21 handed down a 5-4 decision in Epic Systems Corp. v Lewis that deals a significant blow to the fundamental right of workers in this country to join together to address workplace disputes. For over 80 years, the National Labor Relations Act has guaranteed workers' right to stand together for "mutual aid and protection" when seeking to improve their wages and working conditions. However, the Supreme Court decision clears the way for employers to require workers to waive that right as a condition of employment. The use of mandatory arbitration and collective and class action waivers - under which workers are forced to handle workplace disputes as individuals through arbitration, rather than being able to resolve these matters together in court - makes it more difficult for workers to enforce their rights. These agreements bar access to the courts for all types of employment-related claims, including those based on the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act. This means that a worker who is not paid fairly, discriminated against, or sexually harassed, is forced into a process that overwhelmingly favors the employer - and forced to manage this process alone, even though these issues are rarely confined to one single worker. Today's decision undermines the National Labor Relations Act and further erodes workers' rights and freedoms. Workers depend on collective and class actions to combat race and sex discrimination and enforce wage and hour standards. It is essential to both our democracy and a fair economy that workers have the right to engage in collective action. Congress must act to restore this fundamental right and ban mandatory arbitration agreements and class and collective action waivers. The New York Times said writing for the majority, "Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the court's conclusion was dictated by a federal law favoring arbitration and the court's precedents. If workers were allowed to band together to press their claims, he wrote, 'the virtues Congress originally saw in arbitration, its speed and simplicity and inexpensiveness, would be shorn away and arbitration would wind up looking like the litigation it was meant to displace.'" Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented strongly, saying the case will lead to "huge under-enforcement of federal and state statutes designed to advance the well being of vulnerable workers." Said AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka: "Today, five justices on the Supreme Court decided that it is acceptable for working people to have our legal rights taken away by corporations in order to keep our jobs. This decision forcing workers to sign away the right to file class-action suits against such illegal employment practices as wage theft, sexual harassment and discrimination is outrageous - and it is wrong. "In this case, the newest justice has joined the dangerous trend of this court to side with corporations over working people. We call upon Congress to immediately enact legislation making clear that no worker can be forced to give up their right to effectively challenge illegal conduct in the workplace in order to keep their job."

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Meet Gibbi Gibbi on Lampedusa island, about one month after rescue at sea. Lampedusa, Italy; November 2016. ©Pamela Kerpius Meet Gibbi. 27 years old and from Gambia. To reach Lampedusa he crossed six countries: The Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and the most dangerous of all, Libya. His journey took six months, five of which were in Libya. From Agadez, Niger he crossed the Sahara desert in a pickup truck with 28 people. Each, as standard, had 5 liters of water. He made it through four checkpoints across the desert with the help of his driver, who negotiated lower rates to pass. When he arrived in Sabha, he says, even the little kids have guns. They're called "small boys," as I've heard them described throughout almost all of my interviews. (They are also throughout the city of Tripoli, making prey of migrants who congregate on known corners looking for day work.) He mostly stayed inside the compound because it was too dangerous to leave. There were about 300 people living in his particular house. Some slept outdoors because there wasn't enough room. He spend one week in the compound and never felt safe. Gibbi stopped in Bani Waled, then it was on to Tripoli, where he spent three months and two weeks in a prison somewhere within the city limits. He arrived with over 90 people to a space holding somewhere around 700-800, by his estimate. There was scant food or water. He shared a plate of macaroni with 10 other people each day for food. He was allowed one teacup of water daily. Men, women, and children and babies were all kept together in the same space. He was given the option to pay 1000 dinars for his release, but he escaped instead. It took him days to plan it. During his allowed visit to the toilet one morning, he left alone on foot. He looked for other black people along the way for aid. Gibbi's family thought he was dead during this time because he was never able to call home. He was married in 2009 and has a wife, a five year old son, and a baby girl about a year old. He spent a month at the seaside camp before his boat was ready. He crossed the Mediterranean Sea in a wooden boat with 140 people around 9:00pm. There were 40-50 women on board. They were out to sea for eight hours. At 5:00am he was rescued by a German vessel, and was then transferred to the Guardia Costiera who brought him to Lampedusa. He has worked as a mechanic and is eager to maintain his skills. In time, he would like to earn money and send for his family in The Gambia. He was always wearing that same ball cap and had his hands muffled in his pocket to keep warm when I'd see him everyday on Via Roma. He is kind and friendly and his eyes light up when he speaks. Gibbi is an amazing human being. Leggete in italiano

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Meet Dr. Brett Zubeck Meet Dr. Megan Barnes Meet Dawn Branson State of the Art Facility and Equipment Created in Newsletter Library, Wellness The natural world functions very well on its own. Left to their own devices, members of the tens of millions of species on our planet thrive and prosper without relying on outside agencies. In order to grow abundantly, plants consume carbon dioxide, water, and nutrients from the soil. Likewise, herbivorous animals consume plants whereas carnivorous animals consume other animals. Insects eat a wide variety of foods, including plants, fruit, other insects, detritus (dead leaves, stems, and twigs), and even blood. Many types of bacteria and fungi recycle decomposing matter. Whales, the top predator in the oceans, may consume more than a ton of plankton per day in addition to fish, squid, and other crustaceans. Every member of every species excepting humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) obtains everything it needs from the environment. Modern humanity is the only species for which the abundance provided by the global ecosystem is insufficient. For instance, mountain lions, raccoons, and coyotes don't need sleeping pills. But humans spend more than $1.5 billion per year on the sleep aid Ambien. Dolphins, antelope, and bluebirds don't have problems with blood glucose levels. In stark contrast, the annual cost of diabetes medications in the United States was $12.5 billion in 2007. In the wild, oak trees, tuna, and elephants don't need nutritional supplementation. Humans, however, spend more than $23 billion annually in the United States alone. What is wrong with this picture? As a species, humans have the unprecedented ability to manipulate and drastically alter the world in which we live. Also aside from epidemic infectious disease, there exists no natural check on human population growth. As populations expand, resources become scarce. Populations flocking to urban enclaves not only leave behind the countryside but also local sources of fresh fruits, vegetables, meat and poultry. Canning, packaging, and transportation of food over long distances become necessary to supply the energy needs of cities. But only calories and not much else are obtained by these methods. Energy is provided but food quality is substantially reduced. Chronic disease becomes widespread. Diabetes, cardiovascular disorders including high blood pressure, heart attacks, and stroke, and obesity are all the direct result of a severely compromised food supply.1,2,3 Our disconnect from the natural world poses many additional challenges. Our bodies were designed to meet the demanding physical requirements of a hostile environment. But for the most part we don't do physical work anymore. If we don't find satisfactory substitutes for strenuous physical activity our musculoskeletal, metabolic, and endocrine systems easily deteriorate. The consequences include osteoporosis, chronic aches and pains, gastrointestinal problems, and anxiety and depression. It takes a lot of effort to maintain good health when we're so far removed from the natural world. We need to make sure our diets are healthy and we need to get sufficient and regular strenuous exercise. The short- and long-term benefits include happiness, self-esteem, and ongoing well-being. 1Kesse-Guyot E, et al: Adherence to nutritional recommendations and subsequent cognitive performance: findings from the prospective Supplementation with Antioxidant Vitamins and Minerals 2. Am J Clin Nutr Nov 24 2010 (Epub ahead of print) 2Wolfe AR, et al: Dietary protein and protein-rich food in relation to severely depressed mood: A 10 year follow-up of a national cohort. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry Nov 22 2010 (Epub ahead of print) 3Pekmezi DW, Demark-Wahnefried W: Updated evidence in support of diet and exercise interventions in cancer survivors. Acta Oncol Nov 24 2010 (Epub ahead of print) Prudenville Office By Appt. Life Chiropractic and Wellness Center

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Home/News Print This Page County declines MTO transportation grant Published Feb. 1, 2018 Haliburton County council will stick with its plan of commissioning an implementation plan for a transportation service in the community, forgoing a grant opportunity from the Ministry of Transportation. At a December meeting, council decided it will hire a consultant to complete a transportation project implementation plan and has allotted $50,000 in the 2018 draft budget for that purpose. During a Jan. 24 meeting, councillors were visited by Tina Jackson and Sue Shikaze of the Haliburton County community transportation task force, who asked councillors to take advantage of a new community transportation grant program offered by the MTO. A business case prepared by the task force that councillors had received at their December meeting outlined a number of transportation options, one being a booked, shared ride service that would transport residents who called to book rides. It was estimated the cost for such a service would be at least $192,000 a year. "I know there is some concern about how this model will meet the needs of all residents, and I'm here to assure you that it can't and it won't," Jackson said, adding that ideally a suite of transportation services is required to fulfill the needs of residents. "Our request is that you reconsider your decision and prepare and submit an application to the ministry of transportation," Shikaze said. She emphasized the grant program is designed for communities that are not served or are under-served by transit, and can be used to develop new systems, with an emphasis on improving mobility for the entire community, including those with transportation barriers, seniors, people with disabilities, youth and individuals with low incomes. The program offers funding of up to $500,000 over five years, however, a caveat is that it is a five-year commitment. County planner Charlsey White told councillors that if council decided after a few years a system was unsustainable and decided to pull out of the arrangement, it was possible that some or all funds received from the province would have to be paid back. With municipal elections taking place this October, a five-year commitment would also mean that council was committing not just the next county council, but also the council after that, to the project. "I need to see an implementation plan," said Dysart et al Deputy Mayor Andrea Roberts. "I'm just worried about committing future councils." "We have to acknowledge this whole project is fraught with various risks," said Algonquin Highlands Mayor Carol Moffatt. Moffatt said she did see the grant program as an opportunity, but noted the county would be taking a risk with the five-year commitment. "I see it as hedging our bets," Moffatt said. Dysart et al Mayor Murray Fearrey, who emphasized he was not against the project, noted the county would be responsible for administration of the service, something likely not possible with its current staff level. With vehicles, gas and drivers, he said he believed a booked, shared ride service would end up costing more than the $192,000 that had been estimated in the task force's business case. The grant application deadline is also fast approaching, at the end of February. Chief administrative officer Mike Rutter said it was staff's opinion the more financially prudent option for council would be to use gas tax funding to help finance whatever transportation system is eventually created. That way, Rutter said, there would not be a specific time commitment, and council could abandon a financially unsustainable program at any time. Moffatt and Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin acknowledged the decision would likely draw criticism from some members of the public. "I think we're sincerely committed to this, and we're going to do something," Devolin said. The county will not submit a grant application and will continue with the creation of its implementation plan.

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2013 Children's Choice Book Awards (CCBAs) Winners OVER 1,000,000 VOTES CAST BY KIDS & TEENS -- JEFF KINNEY WINS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AND ROBIN PREISS GLASSER NAMED ILLUSTRATOR OF THE YEAR New York, NY - May 13, 2013 - The Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the sixth annual Children's Choice Book Awards (CCBAs) at a charity gala benefitting Every Child a Reader in New York City this evening. The announcement is an annual highlight of Children's Book Week (May 13-19, 2013)as the CCBAs is the only national book awards program where the winning titles are selected by kids and teens. Young readers across the country voted in record numbers for their favorite books, author, and illustrator at bookstores, school libraries, and a tbookweekonline.com, casting more than 1,000,000 votes. Full video footage of the awards ceremony is available for book lovers of all ages at . The 2013 Children's Choice Book Awards winners are: KINDERGARTEN TO SECOND GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR Nighttime Ninja by Barbara DaCosta, illustrated by Ed Young (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) THIRD GRADE TO FOURTH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel (Roaring Brook/Macmillan) FIFTH GRADE TO SIXTH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess by Rachel Renée Russell (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster) TEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Dutton/Penguin) AUTHOR OF THE YEAR Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7: The Third Wheel (Amulet Books/Abrams) ILLUSTRATOR OF THE YEAR Robin Preiss Glasser for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet (HarperCollins Children's Books) About the Children's Choice Book Awards Program (CCBAs) Launched in 2008 by the Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader, The Children's Choice Book Awards program was created to provide young readers with an opportunity to voice their opinions about the books being written for them and to help develop a reading list that will motivate children to read more and cultivate a love of reading. More at . About Children's Book Week (CBW) Established in 1919, CBW is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Each year, official and local commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes -- wherever young readers and books connect.In 2013, official events will be held in 50 cities nationwide. Learn more at . List or update your festivals or literary event>> List your author details>> Featured Literary Journal - Pilcrow & Dagger are inviting submissions! Advertise on site>>

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About Kits House Kitsilano Neighbourhood House ('Kits House'), member of the Association of Neighbourhood Houses BC, is a registered non-profit, charity organization dedicated to meeting the needs of those most vulnerable as well as providing an opportunity for everybody in our community to get together and be engaged. We offer many different programs like volunteer-led English Conversation Circles, weekly hot lunches for seniors, childcare and much more. We are the only Neighbourhood House on the Westside and serves many different communities like Kitsilano, Dunbar, Arbutus Ridge and Point Grey. Kits House has a rich history on Vancouver's Westside since 1894 when it was originally opened as Alexandra Orphanage and Non-Sectarian Home Society. This original site was located at 7th and Pine. The orphanage was eventually renamed "Alexandra House" in 1938. In 1972, the House moved to its current location, was renamed Kitsilano Neighbourhood House and still serves the six communities of the Westside. Check out "A Place on the Corner" for some more Kits House History. Our Statement of Diversity Vancouver's Westside is a healthy, vibrant and connected community where everyone thrives. Kitsilano Neighbourhood House creates community for all by connecting people, ideas, and opportunities. Our community welcomes people of any age, race, or religion. We see value in every person, regardless of physical ability, mental ability, or economic standing. We welcome the experience and knowledge of people from other places. Many languages and cultures are heard in the community at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House. People of any gender and sexuality are welcome in our community. Our staff, board, membership and volunteer community reflect the diversity of our neighbours. Any person who transmits or receives our services can expect to be treated with respect. Our dedication to diversity means that all people are part of our community; therefore, we act to promote the inclusion of everyone in our House. democratic participation What is a Neighbourhood House? Neighbourhood Houses are non-profit organizations, which function as resource centres with the flexibility to meet changing community needs and challenges. They work towards improving the quality of both community and family life and differ from other social organizations as they are concerned with the community as a whole while working towards improving the quality of both community and family life. Programs and services are designed to reach all age groups in a diverse population that is inclusive and reflective of the many different life experiences of the neighbours. Neighbourhood Houses build strong, independent communities, encouraging people to thrive. They are familiar and easily accessible; and effective in reaching people and helping them with their community aspirations, needs, challenges and problems. Scent Reduction Policy Kits House is not a scent-free environment; however, we do ask that everyone avoid the use of strong perfumes and heavily scented products while at Kits House. We ask for everyone's cooperation in our efforts to accommodate staff, volunteer, resident, participant and visitor health concerns, and minimize unnecessary discomfort. We collect personal information in order to maintain contact with you, to invite you to KNH, and ANH General Meetings and to provide you with information on future programs, services and events. Complaint Resolution Process Kitsilano Neighbourhood House is committed to working with children, youth, seniors, families and communities to provide supports and programs that meet community needs. In keeping with this all participants in all programs have the right to raise their concerns about any program decision or actions taken by Kits House. • You will be treated with respect, listened to and acknowledged. • Your concern will be kept in confidence and there will be no repercussions for bringing forward a concern in good faith. • All staff will have a working knowledge of the complaint resolution process and a willingness to listen to your concern and find a resolution that works for all involved. What we will do • We will provide an opportunity for you to explain the complaint. • We will respond to the initial complaint as soon as possible after it is received and not longer than one week from receiving the complaint. • We will document your concern and the final resolution or decision. • We will follow up until the issue is resolved. • We will make sure the process is accessible and transparent. How to bring your complaint to our attention 1. Work together with the Kits House staff involved to resolve the disagreement 2. If the disagreement is not resolved work together with the Program Manager 3. It is hoped that through these conversations, your concern will be addressed to your satisfaction. If a resolution has not been found you can contact the Executive Director by phone 604 736-3588 or email or in writing attn: Executive Director c/o Kits House. 4. If the Executive Director is not able to resolve the disagreement to the satisfaction of all parties, your concern can be referred to the current Chair of the Kits House Board (contact email on KNH website) and/or the CEO of the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC 604-875-9111 ext 107.

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Dovetail is an American band from Dallas, Texas, fronted by singer/songwriter Philip Creamer. Joined by brother and co-writer Daniel Creamer, the band is a family of creative free-spirits in pursuit of the high and lofty. Giving much credence to their musical predecessors, the band lives in a magic place of sonic discovery. Clearly drawing much of their musical inspiration from 60s and 70s era rock and roll, Dovetail taps into the simple yet dynamic arrangements and huge-sounding vocal productions of bands like The Beach Boys, The Byrds and The Beatles. Still, the band is able to create a fresh and modern sound, with frontman Phillip's voice channeling the likes of Tom Chaplin of Keane, or at times, Matthew Bellamy of Muse. Fans of classic rock or of more modern bands like My Morning Jacket, Radio Head, Arcade Fire, Portugal The Man and Dr. Dog will likely connect with Dovetail's music.. As a testament to the band's tremendous songwriting capabilities, Dovetail holds the prestige of winning the 2012 John Lennon Song Writing Contest in the category of Rock Song Of The Year with their song "Julie" which appears on their debut album, Mount Karma. For more information, visit their website at: Be sure to stay up-to-date by following Dovetail on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Israel's puppet war unmasks apartheid regime By Fatima Masri - July 03, 2013 Section: [Main News] [Culture] [Life under Occupation] Tags: [culture] [Jerusalem] [Palestinian Authority] [popular resistance] [social media] [Apartheid] Send by email: Print: Image from Puppets4All Facebook page protesting Israeli ban of Palestinian Puppet Festival The El-Hakawati theatre was colorfully adorned for its annual International Puppet Festival when a closure order by the Israeli authorities dashed the expectations of the Palestinian children living in East Jerusalem. Now signs announcing the closure of the theatre from June 22 to 30 have replaced the festive decorations. This "puppet war" was launched by the Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, transforming a festival for children into a security issue. Officially, the order has been issued on the grounds that Israeli law prohibits the Palestinian Authority from funding or holding any gatherings in Israel without government authorization. The theatre's director, Mohamed Halayiqa, was summoned by Shin Bet and questioned about the funds' provenience. Halayiqa denied the involvement of the Palestinian Authority and so far no evidence of PA involvement has been offered by the Israeli police to justify the closing order. This "puppet war" was launched by the Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, transforming a festival for children into a security issue The festival, which would have been in its nineteenth season, hosts a large number of international performers and theatre groups. Mohamed Halayiqa said the theatre closure was "disgraceful," and claims that the Palestinian Cultural Foundation, which is supported by donations from Palestinian businesses and European Donors, provided funding for the project. The cancellation of the puppet festival raises questions about Israel's democratic principles. The Security Minister says he is not opposed to Palestinian cultural and artistic events as long as they are conducted according to Israeli law. However, if PA funding of cultural activities for Palestinians is prohibited and the Israeli government does not provide any alternative, the result is a system that regulates access to culture on the basis of ethnicity. According to a study conducted by the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, 78% of Palestinians in Jerusalem - and 84% of the children - are living below the poverty line. Israel neglects the Palestinian population's basic needs, including access to education and professional training. Such practices make it hard to believe that any effort would be made by the government to promote cultural events even if they are in line with Israeli regulations. As harmless as a puppet festival may be, Israeli authorities view Palestinian art as part of a national struggle that must be contained. Israeli authorities did not see the festival performances prior to their cancellation, suggesting that the theatre closure was not ordered on the basis of unacceptable content. It seems that any opportunity to enrich Palestinians is viewed as a potential threat to an Israeli system based on the exclusion and segregation of one group. As harmless as a puppet festival may be, Israeli authorities view Palestinian art as part of a national struggle that must be contained Among those protesting the cancellation of the festival are the puppeteers from the Israeli television series "Sesame Street." Ariel Doron, who gives voice to the Israeli puppet Elmo, and Yousef Sweid, who gives voice to the Arab puppet Mahboub, have launched a campaign through the Puppets4All Facebook page, in which Israeli television and stage actors, as well as protestors from all around the world, are posting pictures with puppets and slogans such as "Culture is not a security issue". The Facebook page provides the link to a petition that states, "Every child has the right to enjoy puppet shows". A short video, entitled "The puppet war", was created by Doron to accompany the petition. In the video Israel is represented as an inflatable blue and white hammer chasing scared puppets that cry out for help. Ariel Doron believes that every child has a right to culture. In an interview with Haaretz, he expressed his disbelief in regards to the measure adopted by his own government: "It sounds incredible to me that they're keeping Palestinian children from seeing puppet shows. It seems ridiculous and cruel and sad and completely unnecessary, and hypocritical too. When an Israeli artist attends a festival abroad and is boycotted because he gets Israeli funding, Israel speaks against it, and now it [Israel] is saying the same thing." Israel targeting access to health and health workers in Palestine Palestine's health care system is crumbling due to restrictions placed on Palestinians Israel requires students to pass "propaganda" course before overseas trips Israeli-Arab human rights group Adalah has labelled the course as "racist ideology", Israel's Defence Ministry erases historical Nakba documents An investigative report by Haaretz has uncovered the Israeli Defence Ministry The El-Hakawati theatre was colorfully adorned to host its annual International Rushdi Tamimi becomes second victim of Israeli army in Nabi Saleh On Tuesday November 21st, the body of 31 year old Rushdi Tamimi was Israel Avoids Hard-Right Shift: No Benefit for Palestinians With many commentators predicting big wins for the settler movement in Designed & Developed by: Pixel Co

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How can students health care to be improved? March 4, 2017 iwona Education 0 In the run-up to the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, emeVia's network of student mutual publishes a White Paper designed to challenge parties and their candidates on the issues of student health. 17 proposals centered around three main axes: access to care, prevention and education to the health system. The local student mutually manages the student social security scheme of around 1 million students and offer a complementary mutual insurance scheme to nearly 250,000 of them. Improving health, fighting against cessation of care To elaborate the 17 proposals for access to care and improvement of prevention policies, the emeVia network has based its latest health survey in 2015 on 14,000 of its members. The proposals are intended to challenge the candidates, but also to be confronted with health professionals. Goal? To improve the health and well-being of students, in particular by facilitating access to care, while 16% of them declared in 2015 that they had refrained from visiting a doctor for financial reasons. Which lines of thought should be taken from the White Paper? Three priorities were identified: improving access to care and rights for young people, strengthening prevention and educating young people about their health system. More specifically, the Mutual Network proposes, for example, to link the 500,000 apprenticeship and salaried students to the student social security scheme, in order, according to its president, to "stop the double penalty" of those who, when registering in the superior, of the contribution for student social security but who also contribute through their professional activity. Read also: How to acquire new skills without breaking the bank According to emeVia, it would also be necessary to generalize the university health network Rhesus which exists in some faces like that of tours. This network is the result of an agreement between liberal health professionals, universities and mutual societies. It ensures the third-party payment so that the students have nothing to pay for the day of the consultation, more personalized follow-up and a permanence of care after 8 pm and the weekend. In the same vein would be set up a free gynecological consultation every 2 years for young women aged 16 to 25 years. Lastly, stressing that only 75% of students benefit from a complementary health care compared to 93%. the population, emeVia recommends extending the check or "pass" health, already proposed by some local authorities. It would be set at $150 for fellows and employees. Regarding prevention, emeVia advocates for a youth education by their peers, and this from the high school and proposes the creation of a foundation co-managed by the State, the private sector and the actors of the prevention. We estimated that by setting a tax of one cent on each bottle of wine, we would release 10 million dollars of a budget for this foundation. To challenge the candidates for the presidential election EmeVia has put in place the presidential for which lists all the proposals of candidates for the presidential as well as their positioning on the measures of the White Paper. It will make it possible to compare programs according to thematic criteria. Internet users will be able to vote for a measure, share it on Facebook or Twitter, as well as directly interview candidates via social networks. One limitation, however, is that they will not be able to suggest other measures that they feel could improve their situation. EmeVia ensures that it has sent its White Paper to all candidates, and hopes that answers will be added to the comparator. It remains to be seen if the policies, very discreet until now on the living conditions of students, will play the game. How to Kick College Distractions to the Curb How to create a private school?

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Immunophenotypic characterisation of morphologically diagnosed cases of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) Immunophenotyping and Aberrant phenotype in AML Maria Basharat Saleem Ahmed Khan Nasir ud din Dawood Ahmed Keywords: Immunophenotyping, Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Aberrant phenotype in AML, Flowcytometry Objective: To determine immunophenotypic pattern in newly diagnosed cases of acute myeloid leukaemia by flow cytometry and its correlation with morphological findings. Methods: This study was conducted at Haematology (Pathology) department, Army Medical College, in collaboration with Immunology Department Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi from 16 November 2016 to 16 November 2017. One hundred and six patients of both genders and all age groups diagnosed as acute myeloid leukaemia were included in the study. Demographic data was noted. Complete blood counts, bone marrow examination and cytochemical stains were carried out and evaluated microscopically for blast percentage and morphology. Immunophenotyping was performed by flow cytometry using standard panel on peripheral blood or bone marrow samples. The surface and cytoplasmic antigens of interest were analysed and correlated with morphological findings. Results: The most commonly expressed antigens were CD13, CD33, CD45 and HLA-DR. Almost all blasts expressed CD45 with no remarkable difference among the subtypes of AML. The mean positivity for CD13 among all AML subtypes was 57% and for CD33 was 67%. Aberrant expression of CD7 and CD19 were expressed in 26.4% and 1.1% of all cases respectively. There was concordance rate of 90% between morphology and FCM in our study. Conclusion: Flow cytometric analysis of acute leukaemia done by a combination of patterns and intensity of antigen expression improves diagnostic yield in AML. CD13, CD33 and CD45 are the most frequently expressed antigens in AML. Our findings suggest a 90% concordance between morphology and flow cytometry. It is pertinent to conclude that flow cytometry results interpreted with morphology are complementary. Basharat M, Khan SA, Nasir ud Din, Ahmed D. Immunophenotypic characterisation of morphologically diagnosed cases of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(2):470-476. doi:

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[INTERVIEW] Prof Mehmet UGUR: "We may be enjoying relative freedom in Europe but this freedom is tainted by continued violations in Turkey" Fernando Lozano Elections in March, Hydrocarbons in Cyprus and Erdoğan's Nationalist Footsteps Dr Anthony Derisiotis is a lecturer of Turkey and the Middle East, at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian studies, of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens. He has graduated from the Department of Turkish Studies of the University of Cyprus and got his MA and PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. He teaches Turkish political history and foreign policy. His publications and research interests include Turkish domestic and foreign politics, with a special focus in the Middle East and the United States, as well as the Kurdish issue. He has previously held a research associate position at the Hellenic House of Parliament. A major characteristic of Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, one that he has mastered during his political career, is the ability to adapt to conditions, especially when he can't adjust conditions to his views. The latter may sound absurd, but in the past 16 years, the Turkish leader has done so a few times, with the most significant cases being the way he handled the Kurdish issue, from the pro-Kurdish reforms and the solution process to the sacrifice of the Kurdish vote in favour of the nationalists, or the turn against his former political ally and AKP supporter, cleric Fethullah Gülen. Erdoğan simply changed his attitude and turned against them, when he deemed it necessary to serve his own political interests. In the process he accused Gülen of terrorism, treason and being an enemy of the state, while he practically demonised the Kurds for demanding the rights he has promised them in the early years of his government. In both cases, he used this as an excuse to proceed to a wide-range purge from the armed forces, political institutions, media, universities, etc. Whenever he can't manipulate a situation, he will compromise and adapt to it, as he has done with his relation to Putin that actually flourished after the Sukhoi Su-24 shoot down in 2015 and the Russian economic sanctions to Turkey; or with Assad's advance in former strongholds of the opposition in Syria, which Turkey has been sturdily supporting against the Syrian leader. Another similar challenge for the Turkish president is his alliance to the nationalist MHP, one that has ensured him crucial political victories in the 2017 referendum and in the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, the latter through the People's Alliance. The upcoming local elections in March 2019 is the next challenge in Turkey's troubled internal political scenery and the discussion on a joint campaign under the People's Alliance is already on the way. President Erdoğan has been targeting the nationalist sentiment after the June 2015 elections, especially since the nationalist vote has been a fundamental element of his electoral dominance. He has incorporated nationalism in his approach to Turkey's foreign policy and has adopted an anti-Kurdish and anti-American rhetoric regarding the Syrian autonomous area of Rojava in the east of the Euphrates that is controlled by the PYD. Relations with Washington have been stressed due to a number of reasons, including Ankara's affiliation to Moscow, the Andrew Brunson case and Iran, as well as, Ankara's request for Fethullah Gülen's extradition and the US-YPG alliance. In the process, Erdoğan has conceded to a significant rise of MHP's influence within AKP's ideological core but seems to remain in control of a significant segment of the nationalist vote with political manoeuvres like the recent developments in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus, where Ankara has been raising objections on the right of the government of Nicosia to issue drilling permissions to foreign companies, on the basis that the rights of the Turkish-Cypriots have not been secured. On the same basis, Ankara has also deployed its own research vessels in the Cypriot EEZ causing further stir in its relations with Nicosia and Athens. All of these are related to Turkey's national interests as they have been outlined by the AKP government, after Cyprus established its EEZ with agreements with Egypt (2003), Lebanon (2007) and Israel (2010), regarding Cyprus' hydrocarbon potential riches. Recent developments include Nicosia's 2017 partnership with ExxonMobil-Qatar Petroleum consortium, the 16 November 2018 ExxonMobil launch of drilling operations with the escort of US Navy ships and the heated response by the Turkish government which vowed to begin drilling operations of its own in the Cypriot EEZ. Earlier in the year, just before the June snap elections, the MHP leader, Devlet Bahçeli, was quoted saying "Cyprus is Turkish and will remain so", while the party's campaign issued a map that depicted Cyprus as Turkish territory. Bahçeli's statement was reiterated by İyi Parti leader, Meral Akşener, in her 21 November address to the parliament, where she also warned of a repeat invasion of Cyprus, while calling the international companies' exploration for hydrocarbons commissioned by the Nicosia government as imperialist activity against Turkey. Her statements came after the Turkish government hardened its stance, warning that the drillings off Cyprus would affect regional stability. Adding to the tension, Yeni Şafak newspaper published reports in October 2018 that Greece has been "stealing Libya's EEZ", as stated by defence minister Hulusi Akar in a recent visit to Libya. Overall, there is significant tension brewing in the east of the Mediterranean Sea related to Cyprus' hydrocarbons that serves as nationalist fuel for the MHP and the AKP that both parties are incorporating in their rhetoric, in the wake of the 2019 local elections. Earlier disagreements over a Bill of Amnesty submitted by the MHP, the reinstatement of the national oath in schools and Bahçeli's October statement that the party will not form an alliance in the local elections and will nominate its own candidate for Istanbul, were side-lined after the nationalist leader issued a new statement on 24 November, according to which, the MHP will not nominate metropolitan mayoral candidates in Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir and will support the AKP's candidates. A few days earlier, President Erdoğan has called upon the benefits of an alliance, referring to "expectations from the grassroots of both parties". His statement came just one day before a meeting between the two party leaders to discuss the March elections. Erdoğan is surfacing on the top of the People's Alliance, presenting himself as the guarantor of Turkey's national interests in an acceptable way to the nationalist voters. He is manipulating the delicate conditions in the east of the Mediterranean to his behalf and is gaining the advantage in the nationalist field, ahead of the MHP leader and Akşener. Turkey's Idlib adventure; will it end in tears? Soviel Scheinheiligkeit ist eigentlich unglaublich! Summary of the Parliamentary Resolution of March 2019 on the 2018 Commission Report on Turkey

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Where has the Pledge gone? What impact has it had so far? Stories will be added here as they come in - please send yours! Each small step will take us closer to changing the way the system currently operates, and by collecting as many stories here as possible here, we can exponentially increase the momentum towards that change. The Young Christian Workers (YCW) are very involved in the asylum seeker and refugee issue. Some of the actions they are currently undertaking include: Hosting Asylum Seeker & Refugee awareness nights every fortnight at their Melbourne office. These nights include a dinner and discussion about the actions we can take as a community to support those seeking asylum and they invite guest speakers to talk about their experiences as an asylum seeker. They have an online blog which touches on the topic of asylum seekers and they encourage opinions and awareness for change. They are also entering a team in this years 'Run 4 Refugees' in Melbourne on October 12! They've also been very supportive of the Pledge, uploading pictures of members signing the Pledge on twitter, facebook, and instagram and spreading the word! You can see their photos in the montage on the Pledgers page as well. "The pledge has inspired us to get this awareness out there and to continue supporting those wonderful causes who make it their mission to support our refugees and to stop the injustices against them. All the very best, and keep up the wonderful work!" Grade 2/3 students at Mount Barker South Primary School have explored the Pledge, and what it means to be an asylum seeker or a refugee. From their teacher: My year 2/3 class were fascinated with the lesson. It's not often that they are completely silent but they all sat wide eyed with interest. Prior to the lesson, not a single student of 29 had any idea what the term 'refugee' meant but several recognised 'boat people'.... They are eager to learn more and have already enthusiastically shared their learning with the rest of our school at our last assembly. For the presentation you see in the photo, they were asked to think about an activity they enjoy doing then imagine how happy it makes them feel to have the freedom to do it in our country. From that they drew their activity, as visualised in their mind's eye, and invited a refugee to enjoy the activity with them. Not related to the Pledge, but this article talks about refuges who have gone on to become some of our greatest entrepreneurs. Ahn Do is one of those mentioned; have a look at his book, The Happiest Refugee, describing what it was like to be an asylum seeker travelling to Australia by boat. He's also released a beautiful children's book, The Little Refugee, on the same theme. Linda and her husband Wes from the Combined Refugee Action Group are already active in assisting asylum seekers and refugees, but still loved the idea of signing the Pledge. The Pledge really affirmed everything I have already committed to: lobbying politicians, writing letters and articles to the local papers, encouraging others to do the same, being involved in an action group, using my blog and Facebook for public education, supporting services financially, and befriending individual asylum seeker to make their lives in limbo just a little bit more bearable. We have to take whatever action we can. Every little bit helps. "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." Ryunosuke Satoro Kent is distributing the Pledge amongst the South Australian Police (SAPOL), and to his fellow 10/27 Army Reserve Infantry Battalion Unit and 7th Royal Australian Regiment colleagues. As a member of the Police operating in a multicultural area I have exposure to and deal with refugees within our community on a daily basis. As a soldier I served as a rifleman on the front line of operations in Afghanistan. I deployed to Afghanistan multiple times where the long conflict against the Taliban forced many from their homes. I am well aware that this is just one of many conflict areas in the world that refugees are coming from. I am committed to helping those who seek asylum and educating both the refugees and the public. I think the pledge is a fantastic idea. It's proactive attitudes like yours we need to inject into all areas of our community. Well done and thank you. Sue* is a member of a group who visit asylum seekers in detention to offer them friendship, support and hope. I made copies of the pledge and took it to a group of people who visit asylum seekers in a nearby detention centre. Some of us gather each week to review how things are going for the people we visit; we to talk about what kind of assistance may be needed, whether there are new people we individually may have met, or knowledge we may have gained about people being sent to other detention centres, including Manus and Nauru. At the end of our meeting last week we read through the Pledge at the end as a reflection and as our prayer of remembrance for the asylum seekers who are part of our lives. Last night when I visited the detention centre, I decided to show the pledge to two families and explained what it was about. I, and two others who were there with me, then signed it and gave it to these people who were frightened and depressed that they have been told they are going to be moved to a more remote detention centre. Their faces were so filled with deep gratitude when we read the words "You are welcome here". Thank you so much for making the pledge available to us and for putting words around our thoughts and feelings. * Sue is a real person, but this is not her real name. Her identity was kept anonymous so that her ability to visit asylum seekers in detention is not jeopardised. She is not, however, the only person who has shared the Pledge with people in detention and I thank them all for taking on the Pledge in such a personal way. Rachel is part of the Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN). Check out their Facebook page. We've put the Pledge on our Facebook page and take printed copies to the weekly Nightcliff market stall for people to read, take and sign. DASSAN also visit asylum seekers in local detention centres, bringing them friendship and contact with the outside world. Thank you for creating a powerful piece of prose and sharing it with the wider community!

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Quintiles partners to improve patient care Quintiles has signed a collaborative agreement to help drive innovation, improve patient care and increase efficiency in early stage clinical research Quintiles has signed a collaborative agreement with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London to help drive innovation, improve patient care and increase efficiency in early stage clinical research. As part of the agreement, the biopharmaceutical services company, has commissioned a research facility with 30 beds, for both patients and healthy volunteers involved in research within Guy's Hospital in London. The facility, to be named Quintiles Drug Research Unit, will be completed in early 2010 and will increase Quintiles' capacity to conduct proof-of-concept programmes that help biopharmaceutical companies develop better medicines faster. Eddie Caffrey, senior vice president, Global Phase I, Quintiles, said: "The biopharmaceutical industry must bring new drugs to market faster and with greater predictability to address declining research and development productivity. The smartest move is to invest in intelligent, early-stage development because, when done well, it has significant impact on speed and cost of the overall development process." Ron Kerr, chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust said: "We want to deliver the best possible care to our patients, and we know that aligning clinical service excellence with translational research has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to do this. We're excited by the potential of this collaboration as it will lead to a smoother and faster clinical trials process, ensuring our patients and local people are among the first to benefit from any new discoveries." Professor Robert Lechler, vice-principal (health), King's College London and Director of King's Health Partners, said: "King's College London's important partnership with Quintiles and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, one of our Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) partners, is exactly the sort of collaboration we expect to see at the heart of King's Health Partners." Lechler added: "Through this collaboration and the significant investments we have already made to develop first class clinical research facilities, we will create a powerful 'experimental medicine' hub across four floors of the Guy's Hospital Tower, allowing us to harness the expertise of our world class scientists and clinicians to drive new discoveries in medicine and clinical treatment." Account Manager, MedicalCommunications/ Healthcare PR Account Director - Healthcare Advertising Communications Agency Senior Medical Writer mXm Medical Communications mXm Medical Communications meets the needs of pharmaceutical marketers and medics who require a highly experienced, bespoke service from their...

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THE CASE AGAINST LIBERAL COMPASSION The following is reprinted in its entirety by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College. The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College by William Voegeli on October 9, 2014, sponsored by the College's Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. Four years ago I wrote a book about modern American liberalism: Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State. It addressed the fact that America's welfare state has been growing steadily for almost a century, and is now much bigger than it was at the start of the New Deal in 1932, or at the beginning of the Great Society in 1964. In 2013 the federal government spent $2.279 trillion - $7,200 per American, two-thirds of all federal outlays, and 14 percent of the Gross Domestic Product - on the five big program areas that make up our welfare state: 1. Social Security; 2. All other income support programs, such as disability insurance or unemployment compensation; 3. Medicare; 4. All other health programs, such as Medicaid; and 5. All programs for education, job training, and social services. That amount has increased steadily, under Democrats and Republicans, during booms and recessions. Adjusted for inflation and population growth, federal welfare state spending was 58 percent larger in 1993 when Bill Clinton became president than it had been 16 years before when Jimmy Carter took the oath of office. By 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated, it was 59 percent larger than it had been in 1993. Overall, the outlays were more than two-and-a-half times as large in 2013 as they had been in 1977. The latest Census Bureau data, from 2011, regarding state and local programs for "social services and income maintenance," show additional spending of $728 billion beyond the federal amount. Thus the total works out to some $3 trillion for all government welfare state expenditures in the U.S., or just under $10,000 per American. That figure does not include the cost, considerable but harder to reckon, of the policies meant to enhance welfare without the government first borrowing or taxing money and then spending it. I refer to laws and regulations that require some citizens to help others directly, such as minimum wages, maximum hours, and mandatory benefits for employees, or rent control for tenants. All along, while the welfare state was growing constantly, liberals were insisting constantly it wasn't big enough or growing fast enough. So I wondered, five years ago, whether there is a Platonic ideal when it comes to the size of the welfare state - whether there is a point at which the welfare state has all the money, programs, personnel, and political support it needs, thereby rendering any further additions pointless. The answer, I concluded, is that there is no answer - the welfare state is a permanent work-in-progress, and its liberal advocates believe that however many resources it has, it always needs a great deal more. The argument of Never Enough was correct as far as it went, but it was incomplete. It offered an answer to two of the journalist's standard questions: What is the liberal disposition regarding the growth of the welfare state? And How does that outlook affect politics and policy? But it did not answer another question: Why do liberals feel that no matter how much we're doing through government programs to alleviate and prevent poverty, whatever we are doing is shamefully inadequate? Mostly, my book didn't answer that question because it never really asked or grappled with it. It showed how the Progressives of a century ago, followed by New Deal and Great Society liberals, worked to transform a republic where the government had limited duties and powers into a nation where there were no grievances the government could or should refrain from addressing, and where no means of responding to those grievances lie outside the scope of the government's legitimate authority. This implied, at least, an answer to the question of why liberals always want the government to do more - an answer congruent with decades of conservative warnings about how each new iteration of the liberal project is one more paving stone on the road to serfdom. Readers could have concluded that liberals are never satisfied because they get up every morning thinking, "What can I do today to make government a little bigger, and the patch of ground where people live their lives completely unaffected by government power and benevolence a little smaller?" And maybe some liberals do that. Perhaps many do. The narrator of "The Shadow," a radio drama that ran in the 1930s, would intone at the beginning of every episode, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Well, the Shadow may have known, but I don't. The problem with this kind of explanation for liberal statism is that very, very few liberals have been compliant or foolish enough to vindicate it with self-incriminating testimony. Maybe they're too shrewd to admit that ever-bigger government is what they seek above all else. Or maybe they don't realize that's what they're up to. Such arguments trouble me, however. The great political philosophy professor Leo Strauss insisted that it is a grave mistake to presume to understand important political philosophers better than they understood themselves, unless one had already put in the hard work necessary to understand them as they understood themselves. Perhaps this good advice can be democratized, I thought, and applied as well to Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Maddow as to Aristotle and John Locke. If we make that effort - an effort to understand committed liberals as they understand themselves - then we have to understand them as people who, by their own account, get up every morning asking, "What can I do today so that there's a little less suffering in the world?" To wrestle with that question, the question of liberal compassion, is the purpose of my latest book, The Pity Party. Indifference to Waste and Failure All conservatives are painfully aware that liberal activists and publicists have successfully weaponized compassion. "I am a liberal," public radio host Garrison Keillor wrote in 2004, "and liberalism is the politics of kindness." Last year President Obama said, "Kindness covers all of my political beliefs. When I think about what I'm fighting for, what gets me up every single day, that captures it just about as much as anything. Kindness; empathy - that sense that I have a stake in your success; that I'm going to make sure, just because [my daughters] are doing well, that's not enough - I want your kids to do well also." Empathetic kindness is "what binds us together, and . . . how we've always moved forward, based on the idea that we have a stake in each other's success." Well, if liberalism is the politics of kindness, it follows that its adversary, conservatism, is the politics of cruelty, greed, and callousness. Liberals have never been reluctant to connect those dots. In 1936 Franklin Roosevelt said, "Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." In 1984 the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, "Tip" O'Neill, called President Reagan an "evil" man "who has no care and no concern for the working class of America and the future generations . . . . He's cold. He's mean. He's got ice water for blood." A 2013 Paul Krugman column accused conservatives of taking "positive glee in inflicting further suffering on the already miserable." They were, he wrote, "infected by an almost pathological meanspiritedness . . . . If you're an American, and you're down on your luck, these people don't want to help; they want to give you an extra kick." Small-d democratic politics is Darwinian: Arguments and rhetoric that work - that impress voters and intimidate opponents - are used again and again. Those that prove ineffective are discarded. If conservatives had ever come up with a devastating, or even effective rebuttal to the accusation that they are heartless and mean-spirited: a) anyone could recite it by now; and, b) more importantly, liberals would have long ago stopped using rhetoric about liberal kindness versus conservative cruelty, for fear that the political risks of such language far outweighed any potential benefits. The fact that liberals are, if anything, increasingly disposed to frame the basic political choice before the nation in these terms suggests that conservatives have not presented an adequate response. A first step in that direction is to note a political anomaly pointed out by Mitch Daniels, the former Republican governor of Indiana. Daniels contended that disciplining government according to "measured provable performance and effective spending" ought to be a "completely philosophically neutral objective." Skinflint conservatives want government to be thrifty for obvious reasons, but Daniels maintained that liberals' motivations should be even stronger. "I argue to my most liberal friends: 'You ought to be the most offended of anybody if a dollar that could help a poor person is being squandered in some way.' And," the governor added slyly, "some of them actually agree." The clear implication - that many liberals are not especially troubled if government dollars that could help poor people are squandered - strikes me as true, interesting, and important. Given that liberals are people who: 1) have built a welfare state that is now the biggest thing government does in America; and 2) want to regard themselves and be regarded by others as compassionate empathizers determined to alleviate suffering, it should follow that nothing would preoccupy them more than making sure the welfare state machine is functioning at maximum efficiency. When it isn't, after all, the sacred mission of alleviating preventable suffering is inevitably degraded. In fact, however, liberals do not seem all that concerned about whether the machine they've built, and want to keep expanding, is running well. For inflation-adjusted, per capita federal welfare state spending to increase by 254 percent from 1977 to 2013, without a correspondingly dramatic reduction in poverty, and for liberals to react to this phenomenon by taking the position that our welfare state's only real defect is that it is insufficiently generous, rather than insufficiently effective, suggests a basic problem. To take a recent, vivid example, the Obama Administration had three-and-a-half years from the signing of the Affordable Care Act to the launch of the healthcare.gov website. It's hard to reconcile the latter debacle with the image of liberals lying awake at night tormented by the thought the government should be doing more to reduce suffering. A sympathetic columnist, E.J. Dionne, wrote of the website's crash-and-burn debut, "There's a lesson here that liberals apparently need to learn over and over: Good intentions without proper administration can undermine even the most noble of goals." That such an elementary lesson is one liberals need to learn over and over suggests a fundamental defect in liberalism, however - something worse than careless or inept implementation of liberal policies. That defect, I came to think, can be explained as follows: The problem with liberalism may be that no one knows how to get the government to do the benevolent things liberals want it to do. Or it may be, at least in some cases, that it just isn't possible for the government to bring about what liberals want it to accomplish. As the leading writers in The Public Interest began demonstrating almost 50 years ago, the intended, beneficial consequences of social policies are routinely overwhelmed by the unintended, harmful consequences they trigger. It may also be, as conservatives have long argued, that achieving liberal goals, no matter how humane they sound, requires kinds and degrees of government coercion fundamentally incompatible with a government created to secure citizens' inalienable rights, and deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. I don't reject any of those possibilities, or deny the evidence and logic adduced in support of each. But my assessment of how the liberal project has been justified in words, and rendered in deeds, leads me to a different explanation for why, under the auspices of liberal government, things have a way of turning out so badly. I conclude that the machinery created by the politics of kindness doesn't work very well - in the sense of being economical, adaptable, and above all effective - because the liberals who build, operate, defend, and seek to expand this machine don't really care whether it works very well and are, on balance, happier when it fails than when it succeeds. The Satisfaction of Pious Preening According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Latinate word "compassion" means, literally, "suffering together with another" - it's the "feeling or emotion, when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by the desire to relieve it." Note that suffering together does not mean suffering identically. The compassionate person does not become hungry when he meets or thinks about a hungry person, or sick in the presence of the sick. Rather, compassion means we are affected by others' suffering, a distress that motivates us to alleviate it. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in Emile, "When the strength of an expansive soul makes me identify myself with my fellow, and I feel that I am, so to speak, in him, it is in order not to suffer that I do not want him to suffer. I am interested in him for love of myself." We can see the problem. The whole point of compassion is for empathizers to feel better when awareness of another's suffering provokes unease. But this ultimate purpose does not guarantee that empathizees will fare better. Barbara Oakley, co-editor of the volume Pathological Altruism, defines its subject as "altruism in which attempts to promote the welfare of others instead result in unanticipated harm." Surprises and accidents happen, of course. The pathology of pathological altruism is not the failure to salve every wound. It is, rather, the indifference - blithe, heedless, smug, or solipsistic - to the fact and consequences of those failures, just as long as the empathizer is accruing compassion points that he and others will admire. As philosophy professor David Schmidtz has said, "If you're trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn't." Indeed, if you're trying to prove your heart is in the right place, the failure of government programs to alleviate suffering is not only an acceptable outcome but in many ways the preferred one. Sometimes empathizers, such as those in the "helping professions," acquire a vested interest in the study, management, and perpetuation - as opposed to the solution and resulting disappearance - of sufferers' problems. This is why so many government programs initiated to conquer a problem end up, instead, colonizing it by building sprawling settlements where the helpers and the helped are endlessly, increasingly co-dependent. Even where there are no material benefits to addressing, without ever reducing, other people's suffering, there are vital psychic benefits for those who regard their own compassion as the central virtue that makes them good, decent, and admirable people - people whose sensitivity readily distinguishes them from mean-spirited conservatives. "Pity is about how deeply I can feel," wrote the late political theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain. "And in order to feel this way, to experience the rush of my own pious reaction, I need victims the way an addict needs drugs." It follows, then, that the answer to the question of how liberals who profess to be anguished about other people's suffering can be so weirdly complacent regarding wasteful, misdirected, and above all ineffective government programs created to relieve that suffering - is that liberals care about helping much less than they care about caring. Because compassion gives me a self-regarding reason to care about your suffering, it's more important for me to do something than to accomplish something. Once I've voted for, given a speech about, written an editorial endorsing, or held forth at a dinner party on the salutary generosity of some program to "address" your problem, my work is done, and I can feel the rush of my own pious reaction. There's no need to stick around for the complex, frustrating, mundane work of making sure the program that made me feel better, just by being established and praised, has actually alleviated your suffering. This assessment also provides an answer to the question of why liberals always want a bigger welfare state. It's because the politics of kindness is about validating oneself rather than helping others, which means the proper response to suffering is always, "We need to do more," and never, "We need to do what we're already doing better and smarter." That is, liberals react to an objective reality in a distinctively perverse way. The reality is, first, that there are many instances of poverty, insecurity, and suffering in our country and, second, that public expenditures to alleviate poverty, insecurity, and suffering amount to $3 trillion, or some $10,000 per American, much of it spent on the many millions of Americans who are nowhere near being impoverished, insecure, or suffering. If the point of liberalism were to alleviate suffering, as opposed to preening about one's abhorrence of suffering and proud support for government programs designed to reduce it, liberals would get up every morning determined to reduce the proportion of that $3 trillion outlay that ought to be helping the poor but is instead being squandered in some way, including by being showered on people who aren't poor. But since the real point of liberalism is to alleviate the suffering of those distressed by others' suffering, the hard work of making our $3 trillion welfare state machine work optimally is much less attractive - less gratifying - than demanding that we expand it, and condemning those who are skeptical about that expansion for their greed and cruelty. Those of us accused of being greedy and cruel, for standing athwart the advance of liberalism and expansion of the welfare state, do have things to say, then, in response to the empathy crusaders. Compassion really is important. Clifford Orwin, a political scientist who has examined the subject painstakingly, believes our strong, spontaneous proclivity to be distressed by others' suffering confirms the ancient Greek philosophers' belief that nature intended for human beings to be friends. But compassion is neither all-important nor supremely important in morals and, especially, politics. It is nice, all things being equal, to have government officials who feel our pain rather than ones who, like imperious monarchs, cannot comprehend or do not deign to notice it. WILLIAM VOEGELI is a senior editor of the Claremont Review of Books and a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna College's Henry Salvatori Center. After receiving a Ph.D. in political science from Loyola University in Chicago, he served as a program officer for the John M. Olin Foundation. He has written for numerous publications, including the Christian Science Monitor, City Journal, Commentary, First Things, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, and the New Criterion. He is the author of two books, Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State and The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion. Labels: Liberal Mindset, progressive/socialists, White House Policy Violent Buddhism, Bob Ross's Missing Paintings, and Shakespeare's Lost London Home

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Marie Brennan September 16th 2007 Respecting history I recently came across Guy Gavriel Kay's essay "Home and Away," which addresses the complex relationship between fantasy and history, both in the sense of historical fantasy, and fantasy which models itself on (without directly representing) history. It provoked two major trains of thought for me. The first had to do with this notion: It was Henry James who argued that historical fiction was, in fact, impossible. That it was condemned to be 'cheap' because getting to 'the real thing' with regard to the world views of people in the past simply could not be done. One could only write from within one's own world view, leaving access to the vision or the soul of the past hopelessly barred. If you think it's bad in historical fiction, try anthropology. We've gone through several decades of angst over this very matter: how can we, as outsiders to a culture, try to represent its nature and point of view? Isn't that arrogant? Or maybe just impossible? If we can't achieve that goal, should we pack up and go home? I'll come back to those points in a bit; first, let's turn to my other train of thought, which has to do with respect. I came across the Kay essay by way of Matt Cheney's column "Pol Pot's Fantasized Daughter," published recently on Strange Horizons. Cheney makes some cogent points about the thorny difficulties of fictionalizing and fantasizing a real-world scenario like the aftermath of Pol Pot's regime. I've thought about this in other contexts, too; I'm curious to see more of the world Naomi Novik presents in her Temeraire series, because I wonder how she's chosen to handle the problems of nineteenth-century colonialism. We don't necessarily want our historical fantasy to uncritically replicate the problems of real-world history, be they political, religious, economic, gender-based, what have you - but it's also a little cheap to decide that magic makes the problems go away. Where's the proper balance? If it sounds like I've thought through this in detail, it's because I have; I just finished writing Midnight Never Come, which I fondly refer to as my Elizabethan faerie spy novel. All of the faeries in it are made up, of course, but virtually every mortal character except for the human protagonist is real. And the premise of the novel, in a nutshell, is that the faerie queen has been interfering with mortal politics. Here's the thing. I find Elizabeth I to be a fascinating individual, and while she was far from perfect as a queen - she was vain, short-tempered, indecisive, and jealous - I have a lot of respect for her. But Midnight Never Come is a secret history, not an alternate history; I'm not making any visible changes to what really happened in sixteenth-century England, but rather saying that some of those things happened for secret reasons. Faerie reasons. And this runs the risk of diminishing the actions and achievements of real people. (A problem White Wolf occasionally ran into with the metaplot of their "World of Darkness" RPGs; sometimes it seemed like ordinary people were nothing more than the blind, clueless puppets of vampires, werewolves, mages, etc, etc.) They were real people. As far as I'm concerned, just because they're several hundred years dead doesn't mean they don't deserve respectful treatment. It's tempting to dodge the complexities of the situation by saying it's fiction, it's fantasy, it isn't real. Unfortunately, that's too facile of a response, and at its worst it can be a cousin of the "it's just a joke" non-defense of sexist or racist behavior. If you misrepresent history - real people, real cultures, real events - not all readers will know the period well enough to recognize what's been made up or changed, and what hasn't. Benign example: you'll never ever convince me Loki is really a bad guy, because my first encounter with Norse mythology was Diana Wynne Jones' Eight Days of Luke. The story you tell will go into the reader's mind along with everything else they read, and once there, it has a tendency to color their thoughts, even if it's fiction. So where am I going with all of this? Back to anthropology. First of all, anthropologists depend on the admittedly amorphous notion of respect. Everything they write may not be - will not be - uncritically positive, but it should be respectful toward the real people about whom they are writing. And second, just because I as an anthropologist can't achieve "access to the vision or the soul of the past" doesn't mean I shouldn't try. I can only ever think like me, but I can make my thinking more flexible, more open to other ways of viewing the world. And that's how I feel about historical fiction, too. Respect means researching the period, both its physical reality and its worldview, and attempting as best I can to work from that perspective. Respect means trying to fit what I'm doing in with the "real" Elizabeth, the "real" Walsingham - that is, our historical understandings of them - rather than replacing them with modern authorial sockpuppets that happen to bear the same name. And it's worth trying to do, because fantasy offers an unparalleled opportunity to bring ourselves and our readers into a different cultural point of view. But it's hard work. Have any of you tackled historical fantasy yourselves, and if so, how did you approach it? What authors would you say have done a good job of it? Filed under Uncategorized. You can also use to trackback. There are 13 comments. Get the RSS feed for comments on this entry. 1. S.C. Butler on Sep 16th, 2007 at 11:01 am Never written any historical fantasy, though I'm a firm believer that modern fantasy is the direct successor of 19th c. historical romances. Hoever, regarding the respect issue, I think you can take it both ways. Revisionism can be as much fun as respect. Flashman is the classic case in point - Harry Flashman is a modern, cynical man (I won't go so far as to call him an anti-hero) plopped down in the middle of Victorian England's golden age to expose the hypocrisy of everything they said and did. Fraser's research is dead on, but then he uses that research often enough to turn pre-conceived notions on their heads. 2. Jess Nevins on Sep 16th, 2007 at 11:44 am Oh, I dunno. I think the target of Flashman is as much the modern reader, with their facile and often uninformed judgment of the Victorians, as the Victorians themselves. But that ties in to the respect thing. Fraser, via Flashman, is telling us (sometimes very directly, as with his comments about the burning of the Forbidden City) that unless we put the Victorians' actions into the proper cultural and historical context, we don't know enough to judge. Which strikes me as what Marie (hi, Marie!) is talking about. I'd also recommend Patrick O'Brian's Maturin & Aubrey series, which I think is Literature and on a par with Austen and the other great novelists. My one-and-a-half complete novels are both historical fantasies, and I tackled both by doing as much research as possible until I felt that I knew the eras fairly well. Then began writing. Contexts change, possibilities change, but people don't. Of course, venality and compassion will manifest themselves quite different in the South China Sea in 1806 than in Istanbul in 1425-and that's where the research comes in. 3. Karen Wester Newton on Sep 16th, 2007 at 11:57 am What bothers me most in fantasy settings is otherwise medieval worlds in which women are warriors, just like men-not the occasional Xena but half the armies-with no explanation of why this fundamental difference occurred. I will buy almost any reason-religion, plague that kills or weakens men, you name it-but I want this accounted for. I think it's interesting that science fiction writers have similar problems. Look at Bujold's Vorkosigan series. The Barrayarans conquer and colonize another world. How enlightened is that? Bujold knows this and sets it up so the other world allowed Barrayar to be attacked, so it's self defense. And the Vor may be the universe's best saber rattlers, but she gives them their own strong moral codes. Real people in fiction is another question. I think the fiction writer does have an obligation to do research. On the other hand, he or she can say simply that it's his or her take on that person. Even biographies of the same subject take a slant on what their subject was like. Short of a Vulcan mind meld with a dead person, what else can a writer do? 4. Marie Brennan on Sep 16th, 2007 at 11:59 am Oh, certainly. I don't mean to suggest one cannot skewer historical periods. But there's a difference between mocking what they really did (because you've done your research) and mocking inaccurate stereotypes. Kind of like my long-standing belief that the best parodies are the ones done by people who love the subject they're making fun of. 5. Marie Brennan on Sep 16th, 2007 at 12:09 pm Yeah, I've written about that very gender problem before. (I put it in the context of infant mortality rates, actually: if half of your kids don't live to be ten, then most women can't afford to not have children, which means going to war is unlikely.) Part of my justification in Doppelganger was that magical healing made their lives generally healthier. I never found a good way to insert the other part of the explanation, but the people in that culture believe not only in reincarnation, but in the notion that one might be reincarnated as either sex, making the differences between the two less meaningful. Back to history, though - of course you can't avoid having your own take on a person's life and personality, whether you're writing fiction or biography. But in a biography, one is held to certain standards of evidence for one's depiction; I feel the same should be true for fiction. So, you can give me a Doctor John Dee who's a con man, or one who's being conned, or one who's genuinely delusional, but if you give me a Doctor John Dee who's a neo-pagan earth-mother-worshipping Renaissance hippie (which apparently someone has done), then unless you're writing a weird alternate history where that makes sense, I'm going to call BS. 6. Alma Alexander on Sep 16th, 2007 at 1:49 pm "Secrets of Jin Shei" was historical fantasy - basically rooted in imperial China but with a lot of 'different' stuff in there that made it possible for my story to take place. That didn't stop people from taking it as gospel and asking me which PARTICULAR period of Chinese history I was writing about. But that one was written as pure historical fantasy - lots of research went into it, but the story was pure me. Its successor, "Embers of Heaven", deals with a Cultural Revolution China setting. And this felt very different to me - not least because there are people out there who have either lived through this period of history themselves or have immediate relatives who did - and not only did I have to treat the period with respect, I had to care about making it perfectly plain where I followed the "historical" line and where I diverged from it for story reasons. It was damned hard, sometimes. I'm planning at least one other historical fantasy. Pray for me... 7. Marie Brennan on Sep 16th, 2007 at 3:00 pm Yes, the need for respect becomes much more obvious when the history is recent, and people are still around who remember it. 8. S.C. Butler on Sep 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pm Jess- Interesting take on Flashman - I'll have to look for what you suggest the next time I read one. I've always felt Fraser, via Flashman, took every opportunity he had to stick a thumb in the Empire's eye. As you say, the Aubrey/Maturin books are excellent. But what do you think O'Brien was doing at the end when he ran out of time for Napoleonic derring-do? Secret history or alternate? Hi, Jess! (I wish I knew the logic by which WordPress orders these comments. Does it pull the timestamp from the computer used to post? Because I didn't get notification of your comment until about #7 or #8, yet there you are up at #2, where you most definitely were not before.) I haven't read Flashman, so I can't judge it personally. But based on what you've said, it sounds like Fraser knew whereof he spoke, and that's really what I'm getting at. Whatever you're planning on doing with your history, know it first, and think carefully about the choices you make. 10. Jess Nevins on Sep 17th, 2007 at 9:46 am The most recent one I read was Flashman and the Tiger, so I referred to that. Look at how Flashy adresses the reader about Elgin's decision. His comments boil down to "you really can't judge us because you weren't here." As for O'Brian-I think he'd have found lots for Aubrey & Maturin to do elsewhere. The Brits were militarily busy throughout the 19th century, after all-lots of the "Little Wars" that A&M could have taken part in. Flashman isn't for everyone-his personality grates on some readers-but I think the books are very solid historically, and well-footnoted to boot. And, hey, any author who has a scene in which Sherlock Holmes' snap deductions are shown to be logical but wrong has a lot going for him. *g* 11. Diatryma on Sep 17th, 2007 at 10:55 am At some point in the Aubrey-Maturin books, there's a note saying, more or less, "I've run out of war for the moment, because ships take so long to get there." It mentioned an 1812a, 1812b, et cetera, just because you can't have your characters becalmed in the Pacific while the plot's going on elsewhere. However, I am sure that Maturin could have rigged up a nice FTL drive for the ship if necessary. 12. S.C. Butler on Sep 19th, 2007 at 1:11 pm Flashman and the Tiger is one of the best in the series. I should it put of on the top of my list to reread. And you're right about recommending Flashy to other readers. I stopped years ago after too many people told me they couldn't stand his sexism, racism, and bullying, whether he was honest about it or not. Why I will never write a Mayan apocalypse novel at SF Novelists Pingback on Oct 16th, 2007 at 5:02 am Marie Brennan is the author of more than forty short stories and seven novels, the most recent of which is the urban fantasy Lies and Prophecy. Visit site. 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Obama Hands Corrupt Ukraine Another Billion US Dollars One of the downsides of the US "regime change" business is that when you break it, you often have to buy it. It's all fun and games when you wander through the streets of Kiev with a bag of cookies encouraging the people to overthrow their government, or when you appear on stage before a riotous mob and alongside avowed national-socialists violently overthrowing a democratically-elected government. What gets messy is when you get your way, the old government is overthrown, your "guys" seize power, and it turns out corruption and economic mismanagement are worse than before the US-backed "liberation." Washington to Moscow: Stop Targeting al-Qaeda in Syria - You'll Kill Our Moderates! The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the Obama Administration has requested that the Russians cease and desist from bombing al-Qaeda's Nusra Front in Syria because Washington's "moderate" rebels are fighting together with al-Qaeda in Syria and any attack on al-Qaeda could kill Washington's "moderates." The Obama Administration thus continues with the fiction that there are completely separate, vetted, moderate rebels who are dedicated to creating an inclusive, multi-cultural and multi-confessional, secular and democratic Syria as soon as both ISIS and the Assad government are defeated. Ron Paul Wishes Gary Johnson Were 'More of an Outspoken Champion of Liberty' Asked by Fox Business host Kennedy on Thursday what he would recommend were he advising Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson, Ron Paul replied, "I would want him to be more of an outspoken champion of liberty and be crisp and clear and not make people wonder about it." Ron Paul's Advice at the Libertarian National Convention: Don't Be Wishy-Washy Wednesday June 1, 2016 Ron Paul, whose forty-plus years in the political arena include a run for president as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988, received at the party's national convention last weekend a Hall of Liberty award for his achievement in advancing the libertarian movement. Paul, who was unable to attend the convention, did appear in the convention hall via a video address in which Paul both expressed his deep appreciation for the award and offered some advice to the people assembled. Paul's advice includes that they strive to be principled instead of wishy-washy. Al-Qaeda Linked Leader Visits US - To Lobby US Government! Friday May 27, 2016 Most Americans would think that after 9/11 and the four trillion dollar, 15 year "war on terror" that followed, the US government might actually wish to prevent individuals from visiting the country who are affiliated with al-Qaeda. Sadly, they would be wrong. The McClatchy News Service reports that Labib al Nahhas, an official in the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist fighting group Ahrar al Sham, was granted a visa to enter the US for a brief visit. In a recent State Department press briefing, one journalist questioned Department Spokesman Mark Toner about the purported visit. "Were US officials aware of this visit?" asked the journalist. Breaking: US Soldier in Syria - 'Kill 'em All!' After continued Pentagon denials that US Special Forces in Syria equals "boots on the ground" in Syria, new video has just emerged of a US soldier standing next to what looks like an armored personnel carrier with Kurdish militia "YPG" spray-painted on it. It appears he is asked some kind of question and he turns to the camera with a menacing smirk and says: "Let me tell you something. I"m from the United States of America and I say kill 'em all!" 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Walter Jones who is the sponsor of a resolution (H.Res. 14) seeking the publication of the redacted 28 pages of Congress' Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001. Jones relates in a press release concerning the meeting that Clapper said that Clapper intends to make his recommendation to the White House by the end of this week regarding declassifying the 28 pages.

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The 10 Driest Places on Earth While water shortages in the U.S. make headlines, nearly 3 billion people globally suffer from droughts by Ronald Agrella | Friday, October 2, 2015 Photo: Sunny Forest/Shutterstock The worst droughts worldwide While Californians are living through one of the worst droughts on record, they're not alone. More than 2.7 billion people - about a third of the world's population - experience water scarcity at least one month a year, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF estimates that in 10 years about two-thirds of the world population may be facing serious water shortages, which can cause disrupt food production and promote life-threatening illnesses. UNICEF tracks the countries and populations most affected by droughts. Here are the 10 regions struggling the most, according to UNICEF. Reduce, recycle and reuse plastic to keep the world wild 13 Spook-tacular Steps for Keeping Kids Safe on Halloween 8 Tips to Get Your Bike - and You - Ready for Spring Clearing Up After the Holidays

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Can we still trust car stackers? Having read a recent article in The Age that described the failure of a car stacker system, I was a little concerned. This wasn't a rogue system bought online. This was a Wohr system from one of the most reputable German car stacker manufacturers. Stackers are a good thing for the development world, at least in this world where we still need car parking. Countless tight development sites have been 'unlocked' through the advent of car stackers and many sites wouldn't be viable without them. Stories about accidents like this one can erode the trust in stackers that has been built up over years with the public, developers, as well as with the decision makers at Council and VCAT. Firstly, what happened here? The article reported that non-genuine structural side rails had been installed in the system which were not up to the required steel grade strength and standard specified by Wohr and the Australian Standards (AS5124). It subsequently failed under load causing the accident to occur. How on earth did that happen? Wohr Parking Systems Australia have advised that when the previous Australian distributor of the Wohr stacker systems, Car Parking Solutions went into liquidation, the Shmith's car stacker system that had been ordered was sold by the liquidator at auction to the highest bidder - the Shmith's builder. Unfortunately, the container load of equipment that was purchased at the auction did not contain the side rails that are critical to the strength of the stacker platforms. Enquiries were reportedly then made directly to Wohr to purchase the missing rails but it was going to take too long for the rails to be shipped from Germany. It was also too costly for them to be freighted by air. Under pressure to finish the job, the builder decided to source the rails locally instead. Unfortunately, the rails that were sourced were reportedly not up to the required standard nor the drawings supplied. The inevitable disaster struck and the system failed under load. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Whilst it is unlikely that this sequence of events would ever happen again, how can we have more certainty that car stacker systems are constructed and installed to the required standards set out in the applicable Australian Standards? What about at the Planning Permit stage? Some Councils are already requiring Car Stacker Management Plans to be prepared and endorsed as part of planning permits which ensure that systems are serviced and maintained for instance. These could easily be extended to require all systems to be designed and installed by approved installers in accordance with the Australian Standard. What about the Building Permit stage? Perhaps there is an opportunity for further checks or demonstrations of compliance to be required after installation and before a Certificate of Occupancy is granted? The benefits of car stackers are far too great to let this isolated accident take them out of consideration. DEMAND compliance with the Australian Standard (AS5124). DEMAND that they be installed by approved installers of the manufacturer. Do this and we can be sure that accidents like this do not happen again and we can continue to enjoy their benefits. Brett Young - Image Source: The Age - August 13, 2017 To stay up to date with the latest news, with genuine insight and reflection, follow us at LinkedIn

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Program Goals & Objectives The residency in Low Vision Rehabilitation is an intensive 52 or 54 week educational program at The Eye Institute. The William Feinbloom Vision Rehabilitation Center provides low vision rehabilitation services to individuals with visual impairments at the Center and through its community outreach program. Through an interdisciplinary team, the Center provides comprehensive low vision evaluation and management services. These services may include the prescription of specialized optical devices and adaptive technology systems, as well as rehabilitative services to facilitate more efficient use of residual vision in vocational, educational, and home environments. The Center, with its hospital-based satellite clinics, also provides Low Vision evaluation services to individuals with multiple impairments as a result of head trauma, stroke, or developmental disabilities. The Center also provides low vision services to visually-impaired students through programs established with neighboring school districts. Counseling and support services are also available for patients and their families through the Center's social service department. Additional services include: evaluation of multiply-impaired individuals; pediatric low vision service; adaptive technology service; and neurovisual rehabilitation service. The mission of the Low Vision Rehabilitation Residency at The Eye Institute of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University is to recruit a qualified graduating or graduate optometrist; to train the entry level graduate optometrist to provide patient care, including advanced low vision rehabilitative care, to patients with a broad range of ophthalmic disorders and ocular diseases; to train the resident to evaluate and manage patients with visual impairment, multiple impairments, and developmental disabilities; to provide an orientation and didactic program throughout the year; to promote development of skills as an educator and self-learner; and to provide a suitable environment in which the resident can flourish. The nature of the patient population at The Eye Institute provides the foundation for the resident to hone his/her entry level skills to an advanced level and to cultivate new skills and knowledge as well. The resident is able to achieve the objectives of the program through an appropriate level of supervision and support of a highly-trained clinical faculty of optometrists and general and subspecialty ophthalmologists leading to clinical independence. The Low Vision Rehabilitation resident is typically assigned 40-44 hours per week, and an average of every other Saturday. A total of three to four days are spent in the Low Vision Service, and the remaining time is in other patient care services, as well as in various educational activities. Residents are also required to attend lectures and conferences which are scheduled outside of normal patient care responsibilities. During the assigned low vision sessions, the resident is primarily in the William Feinbloom Vision Rehabilitation Center. The resident also participates in the care of patients in the Special Populations Assessment and Rehabilitation Center in The Eye Institute, as well as to the Vision Rehabilitation Clinic at Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, to examine and supervise students in the examination of patients with vision impairment, ocular and systemic disease processes, brain damage secondary to head trauma, stroke, neurological disease, developmental disabilities, and multiple impairments. The resident also conducts examinations and screenings at low vision satellite program including Overbrook School for the Blind, Overbrook Educational Center, St. Lucy's School for the Blind and the Delaware County Intermediate Unit Low. Emergency Eye Care - Under appropriate supervision, residents manage their own patients in the Emergency Service, where they see walk-in patients with ocular urgencies/emergencies. Patients may be referred to our ophthalmology subspecialists. In addition, each resident is on-call weekends and evenings four to five weeks per program year. The resident is assigned to Vitreo-retinal Disease, Neuro-Ophthalmic Disease, and Specialty Glaucoma Services in The Eye Institute on a rotating basis. The resident may also have the opportunity to participate in other services in The Eye Institute and other area eye care venues. The resident attends and participates in an educational program throughout the year, which includes conference and lectures, and is typically assigned to teach in a laboratory. They also participate in Grand Rounds presentations to fourth year students, fellow residents, and faculty members. A conference/lecture schedule is distributed to the residents on a quarterly basis. Our low vision resident will typically be assigned to teach in a laboratory at some point throughout the program year. Residents are occasionally asked to conduct vision screenings off-campus and to participate in other College activities. An additional stipend may be paid for these services. Sample Low Vision Rehabilitation Resident Schedule (PDF)

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Tag Archives: John Lennon The Ultimate Christmas Playlist Today is the day after Thanksgiving here in the United States of America. You're officially allowed to start listening to holiday music now. To get you started, I compiled a playlist of what I consider to be 100 of the best Christmas songs. Okay, 98 songs, a stand-up routine and a skit. It's a mix of standards, versions of standards with which you may not be familiar, and obscure but delightful tunes. Tagged as "Weird Al" Yankovic, Aretha Franklin, Augie Rios, Band Aid, Billy Squier, Bing Crosby, blink-182, Bob Dylan, Bob Rivers, Bob Seger, Bobb B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans, Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers, Bobby Helms, Boney M, Brenda Lee, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Carla Thomas, Cheyenne Jackson, Chuck Berry, Clarence Carter, Clyde McPhatter, Cowboy Timmy, CyHi the Prince, Darlene Love, David Bowie, Devo, Dolly Parton, Donny Hathaway, Dusty Springfield, Eagles, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Erasure, Eurythmics, Fishbone, Fountains of Wayne, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Jackson 5, James Brown, Jane Krakowski, John Denver, John Lennon, José Feliciano, Judy Garland, Kanye West, Kirsty MacColl, Kurtis Blow, Lady Gaga, Los Del Rio, Lou Rawls, Luther Vandross, Madonna, Marvin Gaye, Mary J. Blige, Mel Blanc, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Miss Piggy, Monty Python, My Chemical Romance, Nat King Cole, No Doubt, Oasis, Otis Redding, Patton Oswalt, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Pretenders, Prince, Ramones, Red Peters, Ricky Martin, Roy Orbison, Rufus Wainwright, Run-D.M.C., Sarah Silverman, Shonen Knife, Simon & Garfunkel, Smokey Robinson, Space Cowboy, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Spongebob Squarepants, Stevie Wonder, Teyana Taylor, The Beach Boys, The Chipmunks, The Crystals, The Drifters, The Emotions, The Impressions, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Miracles, The Penguins, The Pogues, The Roches, The Ronettes, The Staple Singers, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Waitresses, The Weather Girls, Thurl Ravenscroft, Tom Petty, Wham!, Whitney Houston, Wild Man Fischer, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono In 1979, Giorgio Moroder, famous mostly for his production work on Donna Summer records, composed the score for the film American Gigolo. He asked Stevie Nicks to sing the movie's theme song, for which Moroder wrote the music, but she had to decline for contractual reasons. He next turned to Deborah Harry of Blondie. Harry write the lyrics to the song that became "Call Me," the second #1 single for her band. Of her experience with Moroder, she told Billboard "He's very nice to work with, very easy, (but) I don't think he has a lot of patience with people who fool around or don't take what they do seriously. I think he's very serious about what he does and he's intense and he's a perfectionist and he's very talented, so I think that people who are less talented or less concentrated bore him quickly...you really have to pay attention." Said Moroder of working with Blondie, "There were always fights. I was supposed to do an album with them after that. We went to the studio, and the guitarist was fighting with the keyboard player. I called their manager and quit." Moroder did end up working with Deborah Harry again years later on another soundtrack song, producing "Rush Rush" from Scarface, and in 2004 remixed Blondie's single "Good Boys." Tunes du Jour's Throwback Thursday playlist this week spotlights the best of 1980, kicking off with Blondie's "Call Me." Tagged as AC/DC, Barbra Streisand, Blondie, Bob Marley & The Wailers, David Bowie, Deborah Harry, Devo, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, John Lennon, Joy Division, KC & the Sunshine Band, Kurtis Blow, Lipps Inc., Michael Jackson, Olivia Newton-John, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Queen, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Teri DeSario, The Spinners, Throwback Thursday The Story Of Eric Clapton And Layla In the latter half of the 1960s, Eric Clapton and George Harrison developed a close friendship. Clapton also developed a crush on Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. The two started having an affair, but Pattie didn't want to leave her husband. Clapton wrote a song about his feelings for Pattie. He called the song "Layla," after a title character in the book The Story of Layla and Majnun. The book told of a man, Majnun, who was madly in love with a woman, Layla, but was forbidden to marry her. His longing for her drove him mad. Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos released "Layla" in 1971. Pattie and Eric started living together in 1974. They wed in 1979. George Harrison, along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, played at the wedding. Clapton left Pattie for another woman in 1985. Today Eric Clapton turns 71. Here are twenty tracks that feature the musician. Tagged as Aretha Franklin, Blind Faith, Cream, Derek & The Dominos, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Mary J. Blige, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, The Yardbirds It's Max Martin's Birthday And I Need To Dance! As a songwriter, Max Martin has a credit on 21 number one singles on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Only Paul McCartney and John Lennon have more. He has had 60 top tens as a writer. On top of that, he has had a hand in producing a slew of hits. Some of them are good. Today, Max Martin turns 45 years old. Friday is dance day at Tunes du Jour. Our playlist consists of twenty songs Max Martin had a hand in writing and/or producing. Some of them are good. Tagged as Ace of Base, Ariana Grande, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Carly Rae Jepsen, Celine Dion, Cyndi Lauper, Demi Lovato, Ellie Goulding, Iggy Azalea, It's Friday and I Need To Dance!, Jessie J, John Lennon, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Kelly Clarkson, Nicki Minaj, NSYNC, P!nk, Paul McCartney, Robyn, Taio Cruz, The Weeknd, Usher Blondie's hit single "Heart of Glass" was written by band members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein and had the working title of "The Disco Song." Drummer Clem Burke said his part was inspired by the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive." Said Harry "When we did 'Heart of Glass' it wasn't too cool in our social set to play disco. But we did it because we wanted to be uncool," with the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri adding "We used to do 'Heart of Glass' to upset people." The song was included on Blondie's Parallel Lines LP "as a novelty item to put more diversity into the album," per Stein. The novelty song became the group's first charted single and first #1, in 1979. Its success prompted John Lennon to send Ringo Starr a postcard advising to write songs like "Heart of Glass." Today's Throwback Thursday playlist spotlights twenty of the best tracks from 1979, kicking off with Blondie's upsetting disco novelty. Tagged as Anita Ward, Bee Gees, Blondie, Chris Norman, Commodores, Deborah Harry, Donna Summer, Elvis Costello, Gloria Gaynor, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Olivia Newton-John, Peaches & Herb, Pointer Sisters, Ringo Starr, Squeeze, Suzi Quatro, The Buggles, The Clash, The Doobie Brothers, The Knack, The Police, Throwback Thursday, Village People, XTC On March 28, 1958, 19-year-old Eddie Cochran recorded a song he co-wrote with his manager, Jerry Capeheart, called "Summertime Blues." It was intended to be the b-side of a single whose a-side, "Love Again," was written by 17-year-old Sharon Steely, who soon became Cochran's girlfriend. Liberty Records released the 45 with "Summertime Blues" as the a-side. Five months after he recorded it, Cochran had his first U.S. top ten single. In the fall of 1958, the record became a hit in England. Besides singing and co-writing the song, Cochran produced it. His talents didn't stop there. He could play piano, drums, bass and guitar, the latter of which he played on records by two dozen other acts. Cochran's popularity overseas led to a hugely successful tour of England in the spring of 1960, culminating on April 16 with a performance at the Hippodrome Theater in Bristol. On his way to the airport after the show, Cochran got into a cab with Steely, who was now his fiancée, his tour manager, Patrick Thompkins, and fellow performer Gene Vincent. The taxi driver was speeding on a dark and winding street. The car blew a tire and the driver lost control of the vehicle, crashing it into a lamppost. Cochran put himself over his fiancée to protect her and ended up being thrown from the car. Suffering a severe head injury, he was brought to the hospital. The following afternoon he was pronounced dead. He was just 21 years old. Eddie Cochran's time with us was far too short, but his legacy lives on. "Summertime Blues" is an undeniable rock and roll classic, covered by many artists of different genres, including The Who, Alan Jackson, Blue Cheer, The Beach Boys, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Olivia Newton-John. Cochran's "C'mon Everybody" was later recorded by Sex Pistols, and his "Twenty Flight Rock" was played by a teenage Paul McCartney at his audition for a teenage John Lennon to let McCartney join Lennon's band, The Quarreymen. Today is Throwback Thursday, and Tunes du Jour revisits some of the hits of 1958, kicking off with Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues." Tagged as Alan Jackson, Blue Cheer, Bobby Day, Bobby Freeman, Buddy Holly, Champs, Chuck Berry, Connie Francis, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, John Lennon, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Olivia Newton-John, Paul McCartney, Peggy Lee, Royal Teens, Sex Pistols, The Beach Boys, The Big Bopper, The Chipmunks, The Chordettes, The Coasters, The Everly Brothers, The Monotones, The Rays, The Who, Throwback Thursday It's Ini Kamoze's Birthday And I Need To Dance! I'm reading NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming, subtitled Creating the Person You Want to Be, by Tom Hoobyar and Tom Dotz with Susan Sanders. The book teaches one how to think, as opposed to what to think. Of the many exercises in the book is one the authors call "Creating a Well-Formed Outcome." You list things you want and answer six questions related to each want. Within those six questions is an exploration of "meta-outcomes." To explore the meta-outcomes, one must keep asking what will happen if I achieve this goal. For example, one of my goals is to have a leaner physique. Using this exercise, I say "When I am leaner, I'm more confident. When I am more confident, more guys will be attracted to me. If more guys are attracted to me, I'll date more often. If I date more often, I'll end up with a boyfriend. If I have a boyfriend, I'll have someone with whom to watch movies, dance, and share other activities I enjoy. If I do more activities I enjoy, I'll be "in the flow" more often. If I am in the flow more often, my happiness will increase. Another goal I have is to work with more clients. If I work with more clients, I'll make more money. If I have more money, I can partake more often in the activities I enjoy. If I partake more often in the activities I enjoy, I'll be in the flow more often. If I am in the flow more often, my happiness will increase. Now you try it. What is a goal you have? Keep asking yourself what will happen if you achieve each part. If you don't end with me being happier, you're doing it wrong. Start over! Something that makes me happy is dancing. Friday is dance day at Tunes du Jour. Today happens to be the birthday of John Lennon. As he never hit the Billboard dance charts, we'll kick off this week's party with someone else whose birthday is today, Ini Kamoze. More accurately, today is the 58th birthday of Cecil Campbell, who later changed his name to Ini Kamoze. Here are twenty songs you can hotstep to. Tagged as Cerrone, Change, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Eddy Grant, Evelyn "Champagne" King, First Choice, Ini Kamoze, Instant Funk, It's Friday and I Need To Dance!, John Lennon, Loleatta Holloway, Madness, Major Lazer, Malcolm McLaren, Musical Youth, Musique, Nina Sky, People's Choice, Peter Brown, Ricky Blaze, S.O.S. Band, Taana Gardner, Teena Marie, Third World

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Bizarre News Girlfriend: 'Miami Zombie' may have had voodoo spell that made him chew off a man's face By Nadege Green, Miami Herald Published May 31 2012 Updated May 31 2012 On the Saturday morning before he would make headlines for chewing off a man's face - before he would come to be known tragically as the "Miami Zombie" - Rudy Eugene held his Bible and kissed his girlfriend goodbye. Eugene's on-again, off-again girlfriend said he woke her up at 5:30 a.m. to say he was going to meet with a "homeboy." She said she found it strange he was rummaging the closet so early in morning. He didn't name the friend or say where he was going. He planted a kiss on her lips and said, "I love you." Shortly after, he left the central Broward apartment he shared with her. "I told him be safe and I love you too. When he walked out the door I closed it, locked it and went back to sleep," said the girlfriend, who spoke to the Miami Herald on Wednesday but asked that her name not be disclosed. She said that she thought it unusual that he was leaving the house so early, but didn't press him on it. An hour after he left, Eugene called her cellphone. "He called me and told me his car broke down. He said, 'I'll be home, but I'm going to be a little late.' Then he said, 'I'm going to call you right back.' " That was the last time Eugene's girlfriend heard from him. Around noon Saturday, she said she felt uneasy. She got into her car to search for Eugene, thinking he might still be stranded somewhere. She drove through North Miami and Miami Gardens, familiar neighborhoods Eugene frequented to visit with friends and family. "I was worried. I couldn't do anything. I just kept calling the phone," she said. "I left messages saying, 'Rudy, call me, I'm really worried.' " She said Eugene never told her where he was going that morning, and she was surprised to hear reports that he'd been in South Beach in the hours before he attacked a homeless man, Ronald Poppo. As a matter of fact, she said, the previous day he told her he didn't want to go to South Beach because of the heavy police presence for Urban Beach Week. Eugene, who had been arrested in the past for possession of marijuana, told her he didn't want to get arrested. By Saturday evening she still had not heard from the man she calls "my baby, my heart." She turned on the TV to watch the late-night news and heard an unreal story: A nude man near the Miami Herald building pounced on a homeless man, chewing off his face. The man with pieces of flesh hanging from his teeth was shot dead by police. "I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, that's crazy,' she said. "I didn't know that it was Rudy." All day Sunday she placed phone calls to friends asking if they'd seen Eugene and again she searched North Dade streets for her boyfriend. At 11 a.m. Monday she got the call from a member of Eugene's family. The caller shouted terrible news into the phone: "Rudy's dead, Rudy's dead." "I immediately started to scream,'' she said. "I don't know when I hung up the phone, I was hysterical." But it was not until the afternoon, when she left her home to grieve with the rest of Eugene's family in North Miami Beach, that she heard even worse news: The man everyone was calling the Miami Zombie was her boyfriend. Her reaction: Utter disbelief. "That's not Rudy, that's not Rudy," she remembered saying aloud in shock. "I'll never be the same," she said. The man being depicted by the media as a "face eater" or a "monster" is not the man she knew, she said. He smoked marijuana often, though had recently said he wanted to quit, but he didn't use stronger recreational drugs and even refused to take over-the-counter medication for simple ailments like headaches, she said. He was sweet and well-mannered, she said. Eugene's girlfriend has her own theory on what happened that day. She believes Eugene was drugged unknowingly. The only other explanation, she said, was supernatural - that someone put a voodoo curse on him. The girlfriend, who unlike Eugene is not Haitian, said she has never believed in voodoo, until now. "I don't know how else to explain this," she said. She and Eugene met in 2007. While in traffic on a Miami street, Eugene pulled up next to her car and motioned for her to roll down her window. She did. "I thought he was cute. I shouted out my number to him and he called me right then. We clicked immediately." Their five-year relationship hit rocky points over the years, and they would separate for months at a time, then reunite again. She said their problems were mostly "communication issues." She said Eugene worked at a car wash and wanted to own his own business someday. During their time together, she said, Eugene would sit on the bed or on the couch in the evenings with her to read from his Bible. He carried it with him just about everywhere he went, she said, and often cited verses to friends and family. "If someone was lost or didn't know God, he would tell them about him,'' she said. "He was a believer of God." She cries often, she said. Eugene's clothes and shoes are still in her closet. "Something happened out of the ordinary that day. I don't want him to be labeled the 'Miami Zombie,' " she said. "He was a person. I don't want him to go down like that." He was never violent around her, she said. But according to police records, Eugene became violent at least once in his past and was arrested on battery charges. In 2004, he threatened his mother and smashed furniture during a domestic dispute, according to records from the North Miami Beach Police Department. The police report says Eugene "took a fighting stand, balled his hands into a fist" and threatened one of the officers who responded. Police had to use a Taser to subdue him. "Thank God you're here, he would have killed me," Eugene's mother, Ruth Charles, told officers, the police report says. She told the officers that before they arrived, her son had told her, "I'll put a gun to your head and kill you." On Wednesday, Charles said that despite the incident, she and her son had a warm relationship. "I'm his first love ... he's a nice kid ... he was not a delinquent," she told Miami Herald news partner CBS-4 at her Miami Gardens home. Charles told the station she was speaking up for the first time to defend her dead son. "Everybody says that he was a zombie, but I know he's not a zombie; he's my son," she said. She said the man who ate another human being's face was just not the son she knew. "I don't know what they injected in him to turn him into the person who did what he did," she said, making the motion of someone putting a syringe into the crook of her arm. A friend of Eugene's since they were teenagers told the Herald on Wednesday that Eugene had been troubled in recent years. Joe Aurelus said Eugene told him he wanted to stop smoking pot, and that friends were texting Eugene Bible verses. "I was just with him two weeks ago,"' he said. They were at a friend's house watching a movie and Eugene had a Bible in his hand. "He was going through a lot with his family," Aurelus said, and jumping from job to job. "Rudy was battling the devil." Miami Herald staff writers Elinor J. Brecher and Scott Hiaasen contributed to this report. Ginormica is about 6-years-old is an excellent swimmer. Florida mother arrested after filming daughter licking tongue depressor Asked why she recorded the video, the woman said, "I was just being silly with my kids." Rattlesnake, uranium, whiskey found during traffic stop Police said they don't know why the uranium was in the vehicle or how it was obtained. 9 deer at famed park in Japan die after eating plastic bags The Nara Deer Preservation Foundation says nine of the 14 deer that have died since March had plastic in their stomachs. Video: Fearless dog chases bear from neighbor's yard Riley's owner, Alan Tlusty, says his dog always chases the bear whenever he sees him in the yard. Watch: Could T-Rex race become the new Midsummer Classic? More than two-dozen people in inflatable Tyrannosaurus Rex costumes stumbled their way along a Washington race track. And it was fantastic.

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"Hardened policemen were nearly moved to tears as they conducted a preliminary examination of the ravaged body and carried it away in a little bundle." It was a four month old baby-girl violated and murdered. The place of occurrence was Madhya Pradesh in 2018. The little girl is one among the hundreds of thousands in the apparently never-ending series who are lost in the hands of the beasts among humans. Only a few fight back, but they are too few and the rest are buried underneath cruelty- indifference-even hatred of also humans who are variously placed in the corridors and rungs of power. These latter may be the police-military, the strong-arm criminals, socially powerful rich, even MLAs, ministers or their accomplices, or anybody in administration- even judiciary. And many times more are the hapless girls, mothers, even centenarian mother who are never reported suffer from life-long torment, if not murdered. There may be thousand and one ways that make life hell for women of any age. It starts from the generally talked about rapes and gang-rapes that is sexual violence, acid attack, forced sex slavery, forced labour, dowry murders, domestic servitude, forced begging, forced drug peddling, forced prostitution, child pornography, female foeticide, female infanticide, humiliation and torture for girl child birth, torture for nil child birth, deaths from unsafe abortions, pressure for male child birth, least education for girls, honour killings, child bride, child marriage, greater exploitation of women workers. What more horror our daughters and mothers are to face? Is it a civilized society we live in? A few palpable statistics are given below. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) states that in 2015, as many as 7,634 women died in the country due to dowry harassment. Either they were burnt alive or forced to commit suicide over dowry demand. For crimes against women overall, pending cases increased from 1,081,756 to 1,204,786. The horror of Kathua and Unnao rapes have once against brought into focus the safety of women in India, and especially that of children. Looking back at the latest data available, in 2016, India recorded 106 rapes a day and four out of every ten victims were minors. According to the NCRB, between 2014 and 2015 alone, the number of honour killings in India leapt by 798 per cent. States such as Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are leading in such extra-judicial killings. In a recent report it has been observed that in 2017 about 6, 00,000 infanticide have been perpetrated. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has acknowledged that illegal abortions still outnumber legal abortions. According to the Population Research Institute, at least 12,771,043 sex-selective abortions had taken place in India between 2000 and 2014. Human trafficking is on the rise and it is more "horrific" than ever, a United Nations agency found. In a new report on human trafficking, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that the global trend has increased steadily since 2010 around the world. Women and girls are especially vulnerable, making up 70 per cent of detected victims worldwide. India, among a few countries can claim distinction in holding high rank in human trafficking in recent times. These are but a few statistics, the tip of a massive iceberg. The point is why is it so? Why has there been such a spurt of atrocities against women particularly during the recent past. The data presented above speak of the trends between the years 2014 and 2016 or later. One cannot miss that during this period the country has been under the rule of the BJP led by the prime minister Narendra Modi. And one of the most favourite slogans of this government has been Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao (educate girls, save girls). And this is the condition how the girls are being saved. Not only that, in cases like Kathua and Unnao, among the accused, there were leaders- activists- associates of the BJP, even a BJP MLA. Coolly and calmly, they were not only not apprehended, even the party brought out procession in support of the accused to create pressure upon the administration that it does not take steps against them. BJP candidate Shobha Chauhan from Sojat seat in Pali district of Rajasthan openly promised voters that police will not interfere in child marriages if she wins. She was highly applauded by the assembled BJP workers. Is it then not a case of sheer hypocrisy? But why is it that the BJP does not feel the least compunction at this exposure of the reality? Here it may not be irrelevant to bring back a piece of history. In the days of the renaissance, the democratic revolution, the bourgeoisie led for bringing the change in society issued the call for individual liberty and freedom, which also implied equality of man and woman. So call for women's liberation from abject patriarchal domination of the feudal society was an important issue at that time. But the capitalist society that was established in the process remained still a society based on exploitation and discrimination, not only in economic fields, but also in social-cultural fields and every-where. So patriarchal domination or misogynist attitude towards women persisted in the society along with exploitation of both toiling men and women in the hands of the capitalists, the owners, the rich. To add fuel to fire, in our country the democratic revolution was left in a half-baked, truncated manner. With independence, a sovereign capitalist country was established politically. But in the cultural-social -ethical fields the task of democratization remained unfulfilled. The past legacies not only remained, they gradually raised their heads, as the Indian capitalism as an inalienable part of the most decadent world capitalism assumed a moribund reactionary shape with each passing day. The governments which take up the charge of governance of the country, merely act as the political manager set to keep this exploitative, discriminatory decadent capitalist rule running. The BJP, as the trusted representative of the Indian monopolists, have proven in all aspects of social-political-economic activities, that they are efficient subservient agents of the ruling capitalist class. Hence all their pro-people slogans and gestures are mere jumlas (rhetoric), as their president has himself admitted with respect to their electoral pledges. And this is the reason why on one side, they call out Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao, on the other side they do not hesitate to stage demonstration to hammer out that the accused in the gang-rape of a poor child, is really innocent. It is for the people to note and judge this hypocritical face of the BJP, which once claimed to be a value-based party and the task is to organize themselves to develop strong movements against it. Previous Previous post: ELECTION OR NO ELECTION SUCI(C) is in the streets upholding people's demands Next Next post: SUCI(C) expresses grave concern over BJP's electoral victory GUJARAT ASSEMBLY ELECTION : SUCI(C) calls for ending 22 year long BJP rule of fear, hunger and corruption The Great November Revolution : Even after hundred years a fiery inspiration to struggle for a society free from exploitation Why noble scientific ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought can only show the path of emancipation Bicentennial birth anniversary of Great Karl Marx "Secularism in no way means that government will lend its support equally to all religious faith. But to the credit of the Congress and the pseudo-communists and socialists a peculiar conception of secularism has developed in our country which implies equal encouragement for all religious faith. Under such circumstances, what else can we expect except whipping up of religious fanaticism ?" ~SHIBDAS GHOSHSource: A Scientific Approach to Our Educational-Cultural Problems, p.6

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Tags: celebrity smiles braces orthodontic treatment Mayim Bialik has spent a good part of her life in front of TV cameras: first as the child star of the hit comedy series Blossom, and more recently as Sheldon Cooper's love interest - a nerdy neuroscientist - on The Big Bang Theory. (In between, she actually earned a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA...but that's another story.) As a child, Bialik had a serious overbite - but with all her time on camera, braces were just not an option. "I never had braces," she recently told Dear Doctor - Dentistry & Oral Health magazine. "I was on TV at the time, and there weren't a lot of creative solutions for kids who were on TV." Instead, her orthodontist managed to straighten her teeth using retainers and headgear worn only at night. Today, there are several virtually invisible options available to fix orthodontic issues - and you don't have to be a child star to take advantage of them. In fact, both children and adults can benefit from these unobtrusive appliances. Tooth colored braces are just like traditional metal braces, with one big difference: The brackets attached to teeth are made from a ceramic material that blends in with the natural color of teeth. All that's visible is the thin archwire that runs horizontally across the teeth - and from a distance it's hard to notice. Celebs like Tom Cruise and Faith Hill opted for this type of appliance. Clear aligners are custom-made plastic trays that fit over the teeth. Each one, worn for about two weeks, moves the teeth just a bit; after several months, you'll see a big change for the better in your smile. Best of all, clear aligners are virtually impossible to notice while you're wearing them - which you'll need to do for 22 hours each day. But you can remove them to eat, or for special occasions. Zac Efron and Katherine Heigl, among others, chose to wear clear aligners. Lingual braces really are invisible. That's because they go behind your teeth (on the tongue side), where they can't be seen; otherwise they are similar to traditional metal braces. Lingual braces are placed on teeth differently, and wearing them often takes some getting used to at first. But those trade-offs are worth it for plenty of people. Which celebs wore lingual braces? Rumor has it that the list includes some top models, a well-known pop singer, and at least one British royal. So what's the best way to straighten your teeth and keep the orthodontic appliances unnoticeable? Just ask us! We'd be happy to help you choose the option that's just right for you. You'll get an individualized evaluation, a solution that fits your lifestyle - and a great-looking smile! For more information about hard-to-see (or truly invisible) orthodontics, please contact our office or schedule a consultation. You can read more in the Dear Doctor magazine articles "Orthodontics for the Older Adult" and "Clear Aligners for Teenagers."

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Jock Given Jock Given teaches, researches and writes about media and communications law, policy, business and history. He previously worked as Director of the Communications Law Centre, Policy Advisor at the Australian Film Commission and Director, Legislation and Industry Economics in the federal Department of Transport and Communications. He writes regularly for Swinburne University's Inside Story and has published academic work in journals like Australian Journalism Review, Telecommunications Policy, the Journal of Information Policy, Business History, Media History and Studies in Australasian Cinema. His radio documentaries 'Crawfords: Television for the People' and 'Empire State: Ernest Fisk and the World Wide Wireless' were first broadcast by ABC Radio National's Hindsight program in 2014 and 2012. Current and recent research projects include studies of audiovisual distribution (supported by the ABC and Screen Australia), radiofrequency spectrum management and post-war international telecommunications.

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Kiwa: Pacific Connections "You too can be a Māori" "You too can be a Māori" by Robert Jahnke Medium: photo engraved acrylic Size: 12 × 8 × 2 inches (framed) Reference Code: KX30708 "You too can be a Maori" is a triptych that makes a statement about the globalization of cultural icons. The juxtaposition of British Pop Star, Robbie Williams, Maori Leader, Piri Sciascia (with an Italian surname), and Afro-American Pugilist, Mike Tyson, speaks volumes about the globalization of moko (Maori tattoo) as an icon of trans-global culture. Famous / infamous personalities, as globally accessible icons, are just a mouse-click away on the worldwide web. In the spirit of Gayatri Spivak's process of 'strategic appropriation', the imprint of moko and 'tribal tattoo' is temporarily re-accessioned through cultural posturing that is real and imagined, physical and metaphysical. Simultaneously, a subtext of intellectual and cultural rights, peppered with appropriation, interrogates global access rights to cultural icons as pattern and image mined from the other side of the world. Robert Jahnke Te Whanau a Rakairoa o Ngāti Porou Robert earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design in 1976 and his first-class Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 1978, both from Auckland University. In 1980, he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. He is currently professor and head of the School of Māori Studies/coordinator of Māori Visual Arts at Massey University in Palmerston North and a doctoral candidate there.

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History of Washington Origins of Washington state Picture of Washington Humans have lived in Washington for as long as 11,500 years. The first inhabitants of present-day Washington were descendants of the peoples who crossed the land bridge linking the northeastern part of Asia and North America at the Bering Sea. Archaeologists discovered a rich site in the southeastern part of the state near Palouse Falls, dating to about 10,000 years ago. This dig was filled with human bones, weapons, tools, elk remains, and bone needles. The Native American population of Washington state belongs to two distinctive regional groups: those who live on the Pacific Coast west of the Cascade Range, and those who live on the Columbia Plateau, east of the range. Different environments and the mountain barrier resulted in two different cultures and lifestyles. Some of the principal coastal groups include the Quileute, Quinault, Makah, Lummi, Chinook, and Snohomish. Since the area had a relatively mild climate and abundant food sources, the coastal peoples tended to live in permanent cedar houses. These structures, called longhouses, were sometimes about 30 m (100 ft) long and 12 m (40 ft) wide and often housed a number of families. Groups of longhouses were frequently built near the ocean or along a river. From these locations, Native Americans collected fruits, nuts, and roots, gathered shellfish, and fished for salmon, halibut, and trout. Salmon was a significant part of the coastal people's diet, and many tribal people honored the fish by holding an annual ceremony for the first salmon catch of the season. Native Americans developed many ways to catch the fish, including building fishing platforms, stretching nets across streams, and lancing harpoons at the fish. The Quinault and the Quileute, who lived on the coast, hunted fish in dugout cedar canoes. The Makah ventured out to sea to harpoon whales. The coastal peoples had a rigid class system. Social status was often displayed at a potlatch, a ceremony held in honor of a special event such as a marriage or the birth of a child. Native American chiefs invited people from all around the region to come celebrate. Guests would come for several days to eat and dance. On the final day of the potlatch, chiefs would give gifts to their guest, offering proof of their great wealth. Some of the principal Native American groups on the east side of the Cascade Mountains include the Okanogan, Spokane, Wenatchee, Yakama, Cayuse, Nez Perce, and Palouse. Although the Native American peoples of the Columbia Plateau had a diet similar to that of their coastal counterparts, they had to work much harder to procure their food. They lived in a harsh climate and had a semi-nomadic lifestyle. Often Native American peoples spent the summer months at fishing sites or in the mountains collecting roots and berries. They carried light, portable structures made of long poles and woven twigs and fibers to their summer camps and spent the cold season on the canyon floors. They built large, well-insulated pithouses that provided protection from the cold and the wind. These pithouses were 1.8 to 2 m (6 to 7 ft) underground, with skins and dirt forming a conical roof supported by poles. Like the coastal peoples, the Columbia Plateau Native Americans consumed salmon and other fish that swam up the Columbia River. They also hunted deer, elk, bear, and small game. When the Plateau peoples, and in particular the Nez Perce, started to use and breed horses, they were able to travel farther to hunt. Trade among the Native American peoples of present-day Washington was common. Inland and coastal peoples met annually at a place on the Columbia River to the east of the Cascades (the present-day city of The Dalles, Oregon), where they exchanged goods, danced, and had feasts. Native Americans developed a common dialect, which was used when trading with people who spoke different languages. This trade language was loosely based on the Chinook language and had vocabulary from many other regional Native American languages. See also Native Americans of North America. "Washington" © Emmanuel BUCHOT, Encarta, Wikipedia. USA map American states Map of Washington Geography of Washington Rivers and lakes Climate of Washington Plant life Animal life Economy of Washington state Fisheries and forestry Manufacturing of Washington Transportation People of Washington Education in Washington Libraries and museums National parks and forests Places to visit Government of Washington History of Washington European exploration Washington in 19th century First american settlements Washington territory Late 19th century Political development The labor movement The great depression World War II Recent developments Washington today Images of New York Pictures of New York Images of San Francisco Images of Los Angeles Washington Pictures of Chicago

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Places of interest in Alaska Photographic book - USA - 3/03/19 Caribou in Alaska Alaska is a state where the visitor can watch a mass migration of caribou across the arctic plains, see the tundra blossom overnight into a riot of color, and observe polar bears and walruses in their native habitat. It is the land of the midnight sun and the noontide moon. Few states offer such contrasts as the frozen ice fields and steaming volcanoes, the vast Interior and its towering peaks, the fjords of the Panhandle and the seemingly endless flatlands of the river deltas. Alaska's national parks are home to the United States' tallest mountains and biggest glaciers and some of its most exotic wildlife. Alaska contains a number of the country's largest national parks, including Wrangell-Saint Elias, Gates of the Arctic, Denali, Lake Clark, Katmai, and Glacier Bay. Of the 20 highest mountains in the United States, 17 are in Alaska. Mount McKinley, North America's largest mountain at 6,194 m (20,320 ft), is a defining highlight in Denali National Park and Preserve. The second tallest mountain, Mount Saint Elias (5,489 m/18,008 ft), is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, a park characterized by remote mountains, valleys, and wild rivers, all rich with wildlife. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is just one of the areas in which visitors can find examples of active geological phenomena. Since it was first seen by British explorer George Vancouver in the 1790s, the wall of ice that shadows Glacier Bay has retreated about 100 km (about 60 mi). Harding Icefield and forested coastal fjords are the highlights of Kenai Fjords National Park. Spectacular scenery stretches across the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve from the Cook Inlet to the Chigmit Mountains, which include two active volcanoes, Mount Redoubt and Mount Iliamna. More evidence of Alaska's natural history can be found at Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, where steam rises from a few active volcanic vents at Katmai National Park and Preserve. In the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, the Aniakchak River cascades through a gash 500 m (1,600 ft) long at the rim of a volcano crater. Alaska's national parks Alaska's national parks also preserve the state's rich cultural history. The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is a remnant of the land bridge that once connected Asia with North America, the route the earliest residents took to the continent. Cape Krusenstern National Monument contains archaeological sites that illustrate Eskimo communities dating back some 4,000 years. Sitka National Historical Park commemorates the Battle of Sitka, the only armed conflict between Alaska Natives and Europeans. Relics of the 1898 gold rush are preserved at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Several parks embody the state's nickname The Last Frontier because of their remote locations. They are generally accessible only by chartered planes and recommended only to those adventurers who are confident in their outdoor survival skills. Lying entirely north of the Arctic Circle, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains, is the second largest national park in the United States. The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are located in the Kobuk Valley National Park. A rich array of Arctic wildlife can be found in this park and the neighboring Noatak National Preserve, including caribou, grizzly and black bear, wolf, and fox. "USA" © Emmanuel BUCHOT, Encarta, Wikipedia USA map American states Map of Alaska Geography of Alaska Natural regions of Alaska Rivers and lakes of Alaska Climate of Alaska Plant life in Alaska Animal life in Alaska Air quality Economy of Alaska Agriculture of Alaska Economy and culture Fisheries and forestry Mining in Alaska Transportation in Alaska People of Alaska Principal cities Religion in Alaska Cultural institutions Places of interest National forests in Alaska State Parks Other Places of Interest Annual events Government of Alaska History of Alaska Athapaskans Eskimo in Alaska The aleut Early european exploration European colonization Russian-American Company U.S. Purchase of Alaska The Era of Neglect Growth of MiningCivil Government Federal attention The 20th Century World war I World War II Drive for Statehood New State's Economy Prudhoe Bay Oil Public Land Disputes The Exxon Valdez 20th Century's End The 21st Century New York pictures Images of New York Pictures of New York Images of San Francisco Images of Los Angeles Washington Pictures of Chicago

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Royal Lyceum Announces David Greig's Inaugural Season May 3, 2016 by News Team Leave a Comment The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh is delighted to announce David Greig's first season as Artistic Director of Scotland's largest producing theatre. David Greig is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning playwright whose recent credits include The Lorax (Old Vic), The Events (Traverse, Scotland and Young Vic), Sam Mendes' West End hit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dunsinane (Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre of Scotland), and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (National Theatre of Scotland). David Greig, New Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh says, "The Lyceum's 50th Anniversary has been an extraordinary year for the company and the success of Mark Thomson's final year has allowed me to put together this expansive and ambitious programme for my first season as Artistic Director. We will be presenting more work with 11 main stage productions, 4 of which are world premieres, and many of the artists involved will be making work with The Lyceum for the very first time. I'm keen to make new meaningful partnerships, such as our new exciting relationship with the Edinburgh Science Festival and build on existing relationships, such as our involvement with the Edinburgh International Festival, to ensure that we stay at the heart of this fantastic city and truly be a Civic Theatre for the people of Edinburgh and our visitors. I want to put our citizens centre stage at The Lyceum to share this beautiful space and the amazing experience of making theatre - we need to cast at least 200 members of the public in this year's season so please come and join us! I'm also keen that the citizens of Edinburgh have more opportunities to explore and appreciate the splendour of this Victorian building - we will be presenting regular Variety Nights featuring an ever-changing line-up of musicians, poets and theatre-makers. I'd like us to collaborate more across the UK and the world to share our unique experiences and individual stories. This year Lyceum co-productions will visit Glasgow, Belfast and Newcastle, and our theatre will welcome Malthouse Theatre Melbourne and Black Swan State Theatre Company's production Picnic at Hanging Rock. Last year, after a decade of standstill funding The Lyceum received news of public funding cuts of nearly £700,000 from Creative Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council. Not enough to close our doors but enough to significantly narrow our horizons. Thankfully the legacy of the company's celebrated 50th anniversary and the fantastic appetite of our audiences and supporters have given me a year to be experimental - a one season window of opportunity. I intend to use it to make the case for a producing theatre in Edinburgh's capital which is worthy of the city. A Theatre which engages and excites our citizens year round and is capable of taking Edinburgh to the world and bringing a world of theatre to Edinburgh - a Civic Theatre for the capital city of Scotland - The Lyceum. I'm looking forward to working with many talented artists, our fantastic staff, generous sponsors new and old and our partners and funders in Scotland and across the UK, to make this ambition a lasting success for Edinburgh." In brief, the shows are as follows: Wind Resistance - 4 August - 21 August 2016 David Greig's first production as Artistic Director (as Dramaturg) and the World Premiere of Scottish Singer/Songwriter Karine Polwart's debut into theatre. This new theatre gig will be performed in a bespoke performance space the Lyceum's Rehearsal Studio with direction by David's long-term collaborator, Wils Wilson. The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil - 14 - 24 September 2016 Joe Douglas' widely acclaimed Dundee Rep production will mark his debut at The Lyceum and be the first time this iconic political play has been performed on The Lyceum stage since the original production in 1973. The Suppliant Women - 1 October - 15 October 2016 David Greig's first play for The Lyceum main stage unites the creative team behind the 2013 international runaway hit The Events - David Greig, Ramin Gray and John Browne will create a new version of this Ancient Greek story about the flight of refugees and human rights that deeply resonates with our world today. One of the oldest surviving plays in existence -this story will be re-imagined with 50 citizens of Edinburgh playing the pivotal role - the "suppliant" women. Jumpy - 27 October - 12 November 2016 BAFTA multi-award winning actor, Daniela Nardini returns to The Lyceum stage to play the lead role in this deliciously irreverent hit West End comedy of mid-life crisis, teenage rebellion and a mother-daughter relationship in meltdown. Olivier-award winning director Cora Bissett will bring a distinctively Scottish twist to this contemporary tale. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 26 November - 31 December 2016 The ever Inventive Edinburgh born theatre-maker Anthony Neilson will return to his home town to make a magical Victorian version of this classic family story by Lewis Carroll for Christmas. Picnic at Hanging Rock - 13 January - 28 January 2017 The Lyceum will welcome its first international mainstage production outside of the Edinburgh Festivals in its 50 year history - hosting the UK premiere ofMalthouse Theatre Melbourne and Black Swan State Theatre Company'sacclaimed production of this haunting, iconic Australian bush tale. Directed by Australian artist Matthew Lutton. The Winter's Tale - 9 February - 4 March 2017 Shakespeare's timeless tale of love, betrayal and magic will be directed by acclaimed artist Max Webster, who recently directed David's enchanting adaptation of The Lorax. Max will bring a distinctive Scottish flair with a cast of actor-musicians. Hay Fever - 10 March - 1 April 2017 A new co-production with the Citizens Theatre Glasgow, the Citizens' award-winning Artistic Director Dominic Hill will direct Noël Coward's riotous farce charting the unconventional antics of a self-dubbed 'bohemian' family of four. Revelation, romance, and outright outlandish behaviour set the tone of this 1920's dark comedy. A Number - April 2017 As part of an exciting new partnership with the Edinburgh International Science Festival, renowned Scottish director and playwright Zinnie Harriswill direct Caryl Churchill's acclaimed sci-fi story about cloning and its consequences. This eerie production will be performed in an intimate 'in the round' space created on The Lyceum's main stage. Charlie Sonata - 29 April - 13 May 2017 An urban, funny, booze-soaked fairytale about redemption brings together the artistic talents of Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell and internationally acclaimed director Matthew Lenton for this World Premiere. Glory on Earth - 20 May - 10 June 2017 David Greig makes his directorial debut at The Lyceum with a new play by Scottish playwright Linda Maclean. Glory on Earth re-imagines the historic meetings between Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox charting the fatal relationship between a charming young queen and an uncompromising old zealot as they battle for the hearts and souls of 16th Century Scotland. The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other - June 2017 The citizens of Edinburgh take centre stage again in the season finale, a large scale production directed by Wils Wilson. Written by Austrian playwrightPeter Handke, in a translation by Meredith Oakes the production will feature a 100 strong, all-Edinburgh cast and a soundtrack of entirely new music. Additional strands include a series of Sunday Variety Nights to showcase musicians, poets and theatre-makers. Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: David Grieg, Royal Lyceum, Scotland

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Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand From TheBookbag Buy Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com Reviewer: John Van der Kiste Summary: The memoirs of Jo Brand, a former psychiatric nurse who yearned for a showbusiness career and became one of the age's most popular stand-up comedians. Buy? Maybe Borrow? Yes Pages: 320 Date: October 2009 Publisher: Headline Review Born in Hastings in May 1957, after leaving Brunel University with a degree in social sciences, Jo Brand unsuccessfully applied for a research job with Channel 4 on a series about racism, then worked for a time as a psychiatric nurse at the South London Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital. But the lure of showbiz proved too strong, and stardom in stand-up comedy soon beckoned. Much of this memoir is about her early life, from a south-east London childhood, schooldays and rebellious adolescence to student and nursing days. There are plenty of amusing anecdotes about the usual brushes with parental authority, often related to staying out too late or going to the wrong places, and being chatted up by less than desirable young (and not so young) men. She emerges as a cheerfully shambolic character, quite philosophical about being asked to leave her job in the civil service, not unrelated to having had too many cheap beers at lunchtime one day and falling asleep and dribbling at her desk afterwards, matter-of-fact about her less than stellar exam results - let's just say the marks D and E were good friends of mine. A self-confessed unashamed natural scruffbag, she tells us that her room was always a complete tip with overflowing ashtrays, records and CDs scattered everywhere, and old cups with mould in them. (If you're reading this over a hastily-grabbed breakfast or coffee break, I'm sorry). On the subject of dressing, she makes the very valid point that high heels may look elegant, but are useless for running in - and there is many an occasion when a woman may need to be swift on her feet. Her insights into life on the wards, naturally the most serious part of the book, make interesting and sometimes poignant reading. It's probably fair to say that the majority of people picking up this book will be keen to know what makes her tick as a comic, and how 'the Sea Monster' started out as a stand-up comedian. That is crammed into the last two chapters, beginning with an appearance at a rather sleazy Soho nightclub in the summer of 1986. I get the feeling this is only 'Part One - to be continued', as the last page had finished a little abruptly almost before I knew it. It's amusing enough, cheerfully self-deprecating and told in the deadpan style that anyone would expect after having seen her on the box. How, she asks in the first chapter after describing a typical appearance onstage at Loughborough University, did she ever get there when she could have been working in a library or pushing a pram around the park? Although it makes a good light read, it didn't strike me as the funniest comedy memoir I've read. Fans of hers will certainly love it, but I felt there was something a little flat about the whole tone of these pages that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Dawn French's recent title had that kind of effervescent bubbly quality throughout that made it difficult to put down. That same quality, it struck me, somehow tended to be lacking here. Our thanks to Headline Review for sending a copy to Bookbag. If you enjoyed this, may we recommend the above-mentioned Dear Fatty by Dawn French, or Dawn French: The Unauthorised Biography by Alison Bowyer. You can read more book reviews or buy Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand at Amazon.co.uk You can read more book reviews or buy Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand at Amazon.com. Like to comment on this review? Just send us an email and we'll put the best up on the site. Retrieved from "" Jo Brand Reviewed by John Van der Kiste 3.5 Star Reviews Forthcoming publications For authors and publishers Self-publishing and indie authors Reviewer vacancies Website support from Studio 83 and reliably hosted by 1&1 About TheBookbag

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Kendrick Lamar's "HUMBLE." Is The No. 1 Song In The Country The Compton rapper's "DNA." single also reached the No. 4 position. By Ben Dandridge-Lemco Kendrick Lamar performs at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, April 16, 2017. Kevin Winter / Getty Images Kendrick Lamar's "HUMBLE." single has risen to No. 1 on the Hot 100, Billboard reports. The song marks the Compton rapper's second time at the top spot and first as a solo artist. "HUMBLE." has spent three weeks at the top of the Streaming Songs chart and tallied 67.4 million streams in the week ending April 20, becoming the second-most streamed song on a single week behind Baauer's "Harlem Shake." Kendrick also earned an additional top 10 hit, as "DNA." makes its debut on the chart at No. 4. His DAMN. album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning the biggest sales week for any album in 2017 with 603,000 equivalent album units. Read Next: Listen to Revenge of the Dreamers III feat. Vince Staples, Kendrick Lamar, more Elsewhere on the chart, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" remix, featuring Justin Bieber, comes in at No. 9. The song is the first Spanish language track to reach the Hot 100's top 10 in over 20 years ("Macarena" spent 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1996). Hip-Hop, Kendrick Lamar

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Veteran Stories The First World War The Second World War Veteran Stories: Peter Godwin Chance Peter Chance, 1951. Peter Chance Peter Chance on the bridge, HMS Liddesdale, Spring 1942. Peter Chance's Medals (L-R): 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal (1939-45); and Medals from Korea War. Wedding Reception of Peter Chance and his Wife, in Skeena, British Columbia, September 1944. Listen to this story "There was a great call when the Japanese landed only 20 miles north of us for us to get back to the ship." Handley Page Halifax 426 (Thunderbird) Squadron, RCAF... 427 (Lion) Squadron, RCAF Canadians in South East Asia In Malaya and Burma The Canadian Encyclopedia The Canadian Encyclopedia is your authoritative reference of all things Canadian. Then after four months of sort of a crash course at Dartmouth, the Naval College, we were all assigned to various ships. And so my pal, Benny Benoit, a Canadian from my class, and I, were sent to a ship called HMS Mauritius, a colony class cruiser lying at anchor in Scapa Flow. So off we went. As soon as I got there, we were assigned to run ships' boats. Well, both of us had had plenty of experience driving boats of all sizes, and so this was great and we enjoyed that work, albeit it was foul weather and it was cold because it was January. And our ship forayed forth with, sallied forth I should say, with the remainder of the home fleet on two occasions to attempt to find the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau [German battle cruisers], that were reported in a breakout from their home ports. We didn't manage to meet them and it was just as well because we sure as hell weren't ready. However, it wasn't very long before we were then sent to do convoy duty with liners. And they took us from Scotland to Gibraltar, Gibraltar to the Cape and from the Cape up to Aden and then we turned about and picked up returning ships with prisoners and wounded, to return them to the UK. Well, this went on for a while and then we were detached from that duty and for several months thereafter, we worked out of Colombo to the islands of Mauritius, the Seychelles, Diego Garcia, Diego Suarez and to the Nicobar Islands and eventually to Singapore. We were there at the dry dock getting our fire main refitted because for some reason, this brand new ship had a fire main that was more like a sieve than a fire main. In any case, whilst we were there, we midshipmen again were sent off on exploration: come, let's learn a bit more about Malaya duties. We not only flew in the local aircraft and billeted with the local regiment, the [2nd Battalion] Argyll and Sutherlanders, and the Loyal [North] Lancashire Regiment, but we also stooged around the sky in a thing called Vickers Vincent, which were biplanes from the First World War and they were better than that. They were still operational throughout the thirties but they were pretty poor aircraft against the Japanese. And, indeed, all of them were destroyed when the Japanese landed. We, Benny Benoit and I, were sent to a place called Kelantan Province and the town of Kota Bharu, which means new town in Malay, where we were entertained by the local people there and, indeed, the rubber plantations, of which there were many, were all managed by Scots for Dunlop Rubber. Yeah, and, in fact, on one evening, we had a rehearsal for St. Andrew's Ball. Don't forget, it's hotter than the hobs of hell and steam heat, and the bungalows where other people lived, these overseers, were very nice, raised off the ground to allow air beneath them, to help cooling and also be anti-snake protection. In any case, as we arrived, everybody was in whites and there was a piper of course, why not, and we were all handed a mickey of Dimple Haig [whiskey] as we crossed the threshold. Well, that was great fun and we all drank and danced wildly. And, believe me, we were drenched because of the vigour of the endeavour. And everybody's clothes were clinging to them like as though they were naked, especially the ladies, who bobbed up and down, and it was all very startling for young boys like me and my friend, Benny. Any case, there was a great call when the Japanese landed only 20 miles north of us for us to get back to the ship. But, anyway, we got back and sure enough, it wasn't very long thereafter that not only had the Japanese landed, but they were bombing Singapore. And so we midshipmen were detailed off in groups of 10 with a midshipman leading, to board police launches and to go out into the Singapore harbour to attack Japanese junks that were lying at anchor. We didn't realize it at the time, it had been thought that they were, of course, armed and ready to do business. But when, in point of fact, we lobbed some hand grenades into the quarters down below, why we eradicated some Japanese fishermen and found their cargos were Japanese-held ensigns to be given to the, by the conquered nations to the victorious Japanese coming in. And so we were detailed off to get back to our ship, put her back in the water and get her refueled, re-vittled, re-ammunitioned, everything, in 72 hours. We did it and we slipped out during the night and got around from the south end of Singapore island and raced up the Malacca Strait, blacked out, because our electrics weren't connected; we couldn't have fired the guns even if we wanted to. So, eventually, we got back to Trincomalee on the northeast coast of Ceylon and then eventually back to Colombo Christmas and New Years, and then to Durbin and back to the Cape, and home by February of 1942. Aboriginal Arts & Stories Citizenship Chanllenge Encounters with Canada Passages Canada Historica Canada Browse Speaker Bios Anniversaries & Events © 2019 The Memory Project, All Rights Reserved.

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China protests over US warship sighting as trade talks start In this Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, photo, a woman and children play near an art installation at a shopping mall in Beijing. A U.S. delegation led by deputy U.S. trade representative, Jeffrey D. Gerrish arrived in the Chinese capital ahead of trade talks with China. China sounded a positive note ahead of trade talks this week with Washington, but the two sides face potentially lengthy wrangling over technology and the future of their economic relationship. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) - Chinese and American officials began talks Monday aimed at ending a bruising tariffs battle between the world's two biggest economies, as Beijing complained over the sighting of a U.S. warship in what it said were Chinese waters. It was unclear if the ruckus over the warship might disrupt the working level talks being held at the Chinese Commerce Ministry. The two sides have provided scant information about the discussions. Both sides have expressed optimism over the potential for progress in settling their tariff fight over Beijing's technology ambitions. Yet neither has indicated its stance has changed since a Dec. 1 agreement by Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to postpone further increases. Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Monday during a routine briefing that Chinese military aircraft and naval vessels were dispatched to identify the U.S. vessel and warn it to leave the area near disputed islands in the South China Sea. "We have made stern complaints with the U.S.," Lu said. He said the warship, which he said was the destroyer the USS McCampbell, had violated Chinese and international law, infringed on Chinese sovereignty and undermined peace and stability. "As for whether this move has any impact to the ongoing China-U.S. trade consultations... to properly resolve existing issues of all kinds between China and the U.S. is good for the two countries and the world," Lu said But he added, "The two sides both have responsibility to create necessary and good atmosphere to this end." There was no immediate comment from the U.S. side about the Chinese complaint. The American side in the trade talks is being led by a deputy U.S. trade representative, Jeffrey D. Gerrish, according to the U.S. government. The delegation includes agriculture, energy, commerce, treasury and State Department officials. The talks went ahead despite tensions over the arrest of a Chinese tech executive in Canada on U.S. charges related to possible violations of trade sanctions against Iran. Trump imposed tariff increases of up to 25 percent on $250 billion of Chinese imports over complaints Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology. Beijing responded by imposing penalties on $110 billion of American goods, slowing customs clearance for U.S. companies and suspending issuing licenses in finance and other businesses. Economists say the 90-day postponement of tariff increases that had been meant to take effect Jan. 1 may be too short to settle the disputes bedeviling U.S.-Chinese relations. But cooling economic growth in both countries is raising pressure to reach a settlement. Chinese growth fell to a post-global crisis low of 6.5 percent in the quarter ending in September. Auto sales tumbled 16 percent in November over a year earlier. Weak real estate sales are forcing developers to cut prices. The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter, and unemployment is at a five-decade low. But surveys show consumer confidence is weakening because of concern that growth will slow this year. Washington, Europe and other trading partners complain Beijing's tactics violate its market-opening obligations. The standoff also reflects American anxiety about China's rise as a potential competitor in telecommunications and other technology. Trump wants Beijing to roll back initiatives intended to create homegrown Chinese leaders in robotics and artificial intelligence. China's leaders see such strategies as a path to greater prosperity and global influence and have tried to defuse complaints by emphasizing the country's potential as a huge consumer market. They've also promised to allow more foreign access to its auto, finance and other industries. Beijing has tried in vain to recruit France, Germany, South Korea and other governments as allies against Trump, but they have echoed U.S. complaints about Chinese industrial policy and market barriers. The European Union filed its own challenge in the World Trade Organization in June against Chinese rules that the 28-nation trade bloc said hamper the ability of foreign companies to protect and profit from their own technology. For their part, Chinese officials are unhappy with U.S. curbs on exports of "dual use" technology with possible military applications. They complain China's companies are treated unfairly in national security reviews of proposed corporate acquisitions, though almost all deals are approved unchanged. Some manufacturers that serve the United States have shifted production to other countries to avoid Trump's tariffs.

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Wanted man ditches three pounds of pot, $10K in Sullivan County Rain Smith • Aug 23, 2018 at 1:15 PM The blotter is derived from recent incident reports and central dispatch records of local police agencies. Kingsport Police Department - A resident of Stratford Road answered a knock on his door at 3 a.m., according to his account, to find an unknown man with a bandanna covering his face. The stranger forced entry into the home and took the resident's wallet and cell phone. A second intruder cut the man's neck and left arm. A detective was called to the scene for further investigation. - A Ford pickup crashed into a legally parked car on Willow Street, and a witness followed the driver. A block away, the suspect exited his vehicle and ran, but a check of registration identified a suspect. Warrants were to be obtained. - Police were alerted to a man with a gun seated next to vending machines at an urgent care facility. Police responded and spoke to the suspect, finding he was unarmed. The purported weapon was actually a flip-flop in his pocket. - A woman drove into the bay of an oil change business on Fort Henry Drive, nearly striking a vehicle that was on a lift. She then exited her vehicle, "mumbled something" and walked to a nearby restaurant. That's where police found her sitting on a grease disposal, incoherent and unable to keep her balance. Ultimately, she was arrested for DUI, with a blood draw conducted to determine what intoxicants were in her system. - A man wanted in Kingsport was arrested in Virginia. Six months prior, he had recklessly sped through the parking lot of Buffalo Wild Wings on a motorcycle - while not wearing a helmet - and crashed into a car. He sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized, while lab results later revealed he had alcohol and drugs in his system. This month, a Sullivan County grand jury returned indictments in the case for reckless endangerment and other charges. He is now scheduled for extradition back to Tennessee. Sullivan County Sheriff's Office - When police attempted to serve a warrant at a residence on Barnett Drive, the wanted man jumped on a motorcycle to flee and struck a deputy. The suspect then ditched the bike and ran from the scene, with a subsequent K-9 search by Kingsport police unable to locate him. Officers did find a discarded backpack the suspect had been toting. Its contents: 2.73 pounds of marijuana (vacuum packaged in "large quantities"), $9,647 in cash, a handgun and 22 rounds. Additional warrants were obtained on numerous charges, while the deputy hit by the motorcycle sustained cuts to his legs.

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Apple Censors News Show 'China Uncensored' in Hong Kong and Taiwan Category: Politics Tags: Censorship / China / News By VISION TIMES, May 13, 2017 Satirical news show China Uncensored says that the Apple TV app store has blocked users from accessing it not only in Mainland China, but also in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Curated by Chris Chappell, the show was launched on YouTube in 2012, and is currently aired by New York-based New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD.TV). The show mocks the Chinese Communist Party and its authoritarian rule by curating news about crackdowns on dissidents, persecution of religious minorities and state-sponsored hacking activities, and turning them into satirical reporting. Oftentimes, its stories are a mixture of jokes and facts that are built upon the stereotypical image of a totalitarian China. In a press statement on April 5, 2017, Chris Chappell stressed: "I totally understand why we're blocked in Mainland China. We're clearly disrupting the Communist Party's harmonious propaganda... but Hong Kong and Taiwan are not supposed to be under Chinese law." Although Hong Kong is part of China, under the One Country Two Systems principle, the region has an independent legal system. As for Taiwan, it has been a de-facto self-governed entity since Kuomingtang of the Republic of China was defeated by the Chinese Communist Party and fled to the island in 1949. In both regions, NTD.TV has reporters covering local news. In March 2017, Apple approved the China Uncensored Apple TV app for availability in most of the world, but removed it from app stores in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Apple's legal team said its decision is in accordance with local laws: "Apps must comply with all legal requirements in any location where you make them available (if you're not sure, check with a lawyer). We know this stuff is complicated, but it is your responsibility to understand and make sure your app conforms with all local laws [...]. "And of course, apps that solicit, promote, or encourage criminal or clearly reckless behavior will be rejected. "While your app has been removed from the China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan App Stores, it is still available in the App Stores for the other territories you selected in iTunes Connect." Chris Chappell responded with satirical questions in a press statement: "Is Apple so scared of the Chinese Communist Party that it would censor China Uncensored in Hong Kong and Taiwan, just in case? [...] Or is Apple just confused about which places belong to China and this was all an accident? They should probably consult a lawyer, like we've done." In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on April 3, Chappell urged Apple to unblock the China Uncensored in Hong Kong and Taiwan app stores, and vowed that he was prepared to take both legal and political action: "...we have retained a public interest attorney who will represent us and is prepared to bring in a major law firm to take legal action, although we would prefer to resolve this matter quickly and without lawyers. "If necessary, we are also prepared to discuss this issue with U.S. federal regulators, who, while having no jurisdiction over Hong Kong or Taiwan, are nonetheless concerned with Apple's business operations in general as Apple moves competitively into the television industry." Since 2013, Apple has started taking down apps - including banned books and circumvention tools - from its China iTunes store in order to comply with local laws. In June 2016, China tightened its control over mobile applications with the introduction of Provisions on the Administration of Mobile Internet Application Information Service. These regulations outlaw applications that spread rumors and information deemed harmful to national security. In January 2017, The New York Times was taken down from the Apple iTunes Store because of such provisions. However, the newspaper's app remains available in the Hong Kong and Taiwan versions of the store. In the letter to Cook, Chappell stressed that while he is aware of the restrictions in China, the management of Apple's Hong Kong and Taiwan app stores should be different: "No doubt, China Uncensored likely falls under some of Mainland China's dubious legal categories such as: Undermining national unity Spreading rumors Disrupting social order" There is no point in disputing your app store decision with respect to mainland China... but Hong Kong and Taiwan are not ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. They are regions that operate under independent legal systems. China Uncensored launched a petition on April 4 urging its viewers and supporters to tell Apple to "uncensor" the China Uncensored app from its Hong Kong and Taiwan app stores. As at the time of this story's publication, more than 9,522 people had signed. This article by Oiwan Lam originally appeared on Global Voices. [Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.] Like this article? Subscribe to our weekly email for more! To Root Out Foreign Spies From China: Cash Rewards for Informants What Are 'Chinese Characteristics' in Chinese Culture Today? Popular in Politics Top Authors in Politics

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The Secret of the Fern Trails of Freedom > Articles > The Secret of the Fern Tough Mudder 2010: The Ultimate Hike Swimming with Manta Rays Posted on October 25, 2010 in Articles Upon brief examination, ferns would seem to differ little from most of the plants with which we are familiar. They grow in soil, they have stems and stalks, they produce green leaves; just a regular old plant, right? But I'm going to ask you re-consider that assumption for a moment to ponder the following question: when have you ever seen a flower on the many varieties of fern that, as hikers, you've surely encountered throughout your journeys? I'll give you a minute to search your memory... The simple fact of the matter is that ferns don't produce flowers, at all... a characteristic which distinguishes them from the dominant forms of plant life in the world today. The ordinary plants with which we are most familiar all develop flowers of one form or another. These flowers are basically the sex organs of the plant which are fertilized by pollen in order to produce seeds. Indeed, seeds are what we generally think of as the obvious vehicle by which plants reproduce. But if ferns don't produce flowers, and thus don't produce seeds, how can they possibly persist? The answer to this paradox lies in a vehicle of reproduction which we have become accustomed to associate with an entirely different form of life: mushrooms. Mushrooms don't produce seeds either, but they too don't seem to have a problem persisting or spreading their species over large areas of their environment. Ferns, like mushrooms, produce spores... incredibly tiny reproductive vessels that, unlike seeds, do not contain an embryo. Spores are released from ferns in incredibly large numbers and are generally released into the air in the hopes that they will travel elsewhere to establish new colonies in untapped terrain. While it may seem strange, this method of reproduction has served ferns rather well over the course of prehistory. There was a time, roughly 300 million years ago, when ferns "ruled the world", so to speak. They were the most dominant form of leafy vegetation in existence at that time, with some species growing as tall as 100 feet and producing stalks that could measure as much as 5 feet in circumference. As climate change re-shaped the Earth's environment, however, many ferns species began to die out and that's when flowering plants had their opportunity to take center stage. Not only did they take center stage, but over millions of years, they practically stole the show. Nonetheless, ferns could hardly be called "rare" these days, even if they lost their dominant role to flowering plants millions of years ago. And perhaps this is because their strategy of producing spores, rather than seeds, offers them a few unique opportunities that flowering plants are content to due without. Seeds are typically much larger than fern spores, which are nearly invisible to the naked eye. The bulk of a seed is comprised of two things: an embryo and a generous supply of food that can be called upon to aid the growth of seedlings. Spores, on the other hand, contain little or no stored food whatsoever. For this very reason, spores can be incredibly light, able to travel enormous distances upon little more than a light, persistent breeze. When Mount Saint Helens erupted, destroying most of the surrounding plant life, a fern native to Japan was amongst the first to re-colonize the area! On one hand, flowering plants can try their luck in a wide range of environments. Seeds have enough stored fuel to give seedlings a fighting chance even in less than perfect conditions. On the other hand, seeds don't travel very easily by their lonesome. That's the reason that all manner of clever means of distribution are employed... clingy burrs, shells resistant to digestive systems, helicopter-like pods that can fly on the wind, or airy seeds covered with tiny filaments that may float long distances before being deposited. Spores produced by ferns don't usually need to employ such complex means of distribution. Instead, the minute spores are produced by the millions and allowed to drift away with minimal help from animals or evolved aerodynamics. This simplicity comes with a price, however... spores lack the built-in food sources utilized by seeds. Because of this, truly ideal conditions are required for a spore to flourish, and the striking numbers in which spores are produced by ferns is a reflection of the crap shoot undertaken when sending these colonizers out into the world without supplies. But spores can persist much longer in harsh or uninviting conditions than seeds, which have a comparatively limited range of viability. Fern spores can literally wait around for the right conditions to come to them, and so even though many spores ultimately strike out in the search for suitable habitat, others are rewarded for their patience. While ferns may no longer be the "top dog" of the plant world, they have secured an enormously successful niche for themselves that is likely to see them persisting for millions and millions of years to come. Flowering plants, though incredibly efficient in their own right, cannot entirely out-compete the fern's unique ability to distribute such mass quantities of small, hardy colonists. The next time you happen upon some ferns along the trail, take a moment to appreciate the intriguing means by which these ancient organisms have persisted throughout the history of life on Earth. Modern ferns are living and reproducing in much the same way that their ancestors did a couple hundred million years ago... long before anything even remotely like a mammal, much less a human, could be found in the world. , plants, spores

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Stirring Up Ocean Floor Can Boost Fish Populations Thread: Stirring Up Ocean Floor Can Boost Fish Populations Fishing technique known as trawling can sometimes be productive. Originally published: Sep 9 2013 - 2:00pm Amanda Alvarez, ISNS Contributor (ISNS) -- High-intensity raking of the seabed, called trawling, is a very effective fishing method that can inflict significant collateral damage on sea life. However, it can sometimes help fish populations to grow, scientists have found. In a study appropriately titled "When does fishing lead to more fish?" Dutch scientists pinpointed the circumstances under which destructive trawling can actually stimulate fish numbers and lead to greater catches. As industry professionals and activists seek sustainable solutions for dwindling fish populations and legislators in the European Union debate regulations that would ban deep-sea trawling, this research could inform the management of seafood production. According to fishermen's lore, trawling can actually foster conditions that are better for fish. Michel Kaiser, a professor of marine conservation ecology at Bangor University in the U.K., calls this an ecological cultivation effect. "It was fishermen's hypothesis-setting that stimulated this piece of science," said Kaiser, who wasn't part of the study but has investigated the effects of trawling for more than 20 years. "Trawling can remove competing species, and fishermen observed this in coastal locations with natural seabed disturbances." Bottom trawling is conducted in areas like the North Sea and off the coast of Newfoundland, from shallow areas along the continental shelf to depths of more than 200 meters (about 650 feet). Twenty-three percent of the world's fish catch comes from bottom trawling, according to a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimate. Trawling targets flatfish species like yellowtail flounder, sole, and plaice, which feed on bottom-dwelling worms. Daniel van Denderen, a fisheries researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and his colleagues found that to really understand the impacts of trawling, the indirect food web interactions between fish and their prey need to be better studied. Their paper was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The new research put the fisherman's wisdom to the test by modeling the effects of trawling on the numbers of fish and their prey - larger seabed invertebrates like crabs or shrimp that may have hard shells, and soft-bodied worms and mollusks. The circumstances under which the trawling cultivation effect holds true and fish numbers increase depend crucially on these prey and their resilience to trawling. Larger non-fish species can be caught or crushed by the trawling process, while smaller ones may coast through the nets. The prey species that are more resistant to the effects of trawling - those that are soft-bodied, smaller, and able to reproduce more quickly - can proliferate, leading to more "fish food" and a jump in fish numbers. The mathematical model, which uses simplified ocean ecosystem dynamics to simulate prey and fish growth rates in response to various trawling intensities, explains how these factors can sometimes positively interact to boost fish yield. "There may be a positive relationship between trawling and fish biomass," explained van Denderen, "but only at very limited trawling intensities." The sweet spot, where more frequent trawling leads to more fish, depends on the resistant prey species also being more energetically profitable for the fish - that is, preferable and tastier. This may not always be the case, said van Denderen; it depends on proximity to the coast, water depth, and the ocean floor ecosystem. "How resistant and susceptible benthos [bottom-dwelling invertebrate prey species] interact and are eaten by fish is really important for understanding the impacts of trawling," he said. "The different responses of fish and benthos in our model could lead to more optimal management of systems being trawled." In reality, van Denderen expects that a broader range of species, including ones not included in the model, may be sensitive to trawling, though some may be resilient and conversely benefit from trawling. Scientists need to develop a better understanding of the sea areas where this occurs, he said. "We need to think about the impact of trawling on a case-by-case basis," said Kaiser. "This model can help us decide how best to harvest fish from a particular environment and ensure that we don't use inappropriate techniques that would reduce the potential production of food." For example, certain fishing zones could benefit from trawling to cultivate prey species and maximize fish yield. On the other hand, "you can completely remove a habitat with trawling. We don't want to give the idea that you should find a sponge reef and turn it into a worm bed with trawling. The model is relevant to areas that are already modified by trawling," said Kaiser.

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Tactical Failure of Turkish Policy on Mavi Marmara Crises Published by Huffington Post UK Blog, 3 September 2011 No matter what angle one looks at, it is undeniable that Turkey has every right to continue to demand an apology for the killing of her citizens, just as every country in the world would and should do in such an incident. Yet, Turkey has committed a tactical mistake in the process of achieving an apology. With hindsight, it is clear that the build up to the killing of Turkish citizens on board the doomed boat is not that black and white. Before the boat sailed, both Turkey and Israel could have found a way of stopping or handling it, but both parties failed to do so and allowed things to reach to their nadir. While vast majority of the people on the boat were peace activists, there was a small group of mujahiddeen-wannabes ready to 'retaliate'. The Israeli forces not only failed dramatically in the operational sense, but their wrong approach of trying to stop the boat triggered retaliation and not surprisingly use of brutal military force. Israel had a brief window of opportunity to stop escalation of the issue. It could have been enough to state that operation went wrong and that its sorry for loss of life but still insist that the boats should not have been there, which would have defused the situation. AKP had no chance but to stand boldly against Israel and demand an apology as the entire Turkish public demanded so. Both parties were then engulfed in copying each other in harsher and bolder stands with growing myopia of the implications of their mimetic bravado for the entire Middle East. Turkey could have made an apology from Israel a lot more possible if the AKP government has not included the lifting of Gaza blockade to its three fold demand from Israel, two of which asked for apology and reparations for the murdered citizens. However, the issue of Gaza and the issue of dead citizens are not inherently linked. It would have been so if those murdered were Palestinian dwellers of Gaza who were killed during an attempt to bring banned supplies to Gaza. While Turkey might have a stand on Gaza and over all Israel-Palestine issues, by combining it with its rightful demand for an apology for its citizens, it undermined its own cause. The Gaza blockade emerged from Israel's policy, backed by all of the major stakeholders, to isolate and weaken Hamas. Thus, a demand for the lifting of blockade bumps into a much more complicated and long term tension involving many powerful stakeholders and Israeli public. Unwittingly, Turkey has made the loss of its citizens a political tool for a larger policy on Israel. This only caused the hardened voices in Israel to mute others that see friendship with Turkey to be too important to loose. That is why even though the UN report clearly states the military failures and serious human rights abuses committed by Israel, it's dubious claims on the legality of the blockade was seen as a victory and a reason to never apologize to Turkey. In contrast, Egypt was able to get a quick and swift apology from Israel for the killing of its troops. In diplomacy, one has to develop a game plan for the desired achievement. Turkey seems to have miscalculated and gambled far more than would have been possible to achieve. As for Israel, it once again found joy in being singled out by the world and loosing one more friend in such a critical conjuncture without ever realizing the long term costs of a temporary sense of pride and martyrdom. So the winner stands alone now; a discredited UN commissioned report and its politically charged writers, unsuccessful outcomes of the Turkish gamble, delusional arrogance of Israeli foreign ministry under the Netanyahu government. The dead are still dead, their families are still mourning and sadly, many more will join their ranks. Tags: Middle East

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"Insidious" Writer Leigh Whannell to Direct "Insidious: Chapter 3" Posted: May 12th, 2014 by WorstPreviews.com Staff James Wan had lots of success with horror films, such as "Saw," "The Conjuring" and "Insidious." All three became franchises, but the director recently announced that he's done with horror and is currently working on "Fast and Furious 7." With "Insidious" becoming the most profitable film of 2011 by grossing $97 million on a budget of $1.5 million, and the sequel $162 million on a budget of $5 million, it's no surprise that a third installment is in the works. But who will direct? Now comes word from Wan that "Insidious" writer and actor Leigh Whannell will take over the franchise and will direct "Insidious: Chapter 3," which is already set to hit theaters on April 3rd, 2015. Wan, meanwhile, will stay on as a producer. Source: Focus Features, James Wan cress writes: on May 12th, 2014 at 7:00:09 AM The first was decent until they went into "the Further", or whatever they called the astral plane, and became very dumb quickly. The sequel was absolutely terrible. Tanman32123 writes: Agreed^ But I wouldn't call the sequel Terrible. More simply 'bad' to me on May 12th, 2014 at 10:44:07 AM happy birthday tanman! on May 12th, 2014 at 5:20:29 PM ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Max Rockatansky Junior writes: This series (and many others like it) make PT Barnum a f*cking legend .... " There's a sucker born every minute ... " Just like Dark8/D9rk's mum. Situs Judi poker ace on January 3rd, 2018 at 12:39:05 AM

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About Williamston, SC Nestled in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the scenic Upstate, Williamston is a thriving area with industrial, commercial, and tourist activity. Its proximity to the I-85 business corridor and metropolitan areas make it a great place to live, work and play. Williamston is only 15 minutes from Greenville or Anderson, two hours to Atlanta or Charlotte, and four hours to sun at the beach or snow in the mountains. Fun is always in season with a climate that boasts 248 days of sunshine, 49 inches of precipitation, and a comfortable average temperature of 64 degrees. Indeed, Williamston is a pleasant place to spend a day, a week, or a lifetime. Water, sewer, and trash pickup can be set up by coming to the Municipal Center. Reservations for shelters in Mineral Spring Park or meeting rooms in the Center can be made by visiting the Municipal Center. The Municipal Center is located at 12 West Main St and the phone number is 864-847-7473. Setup, termination, or payment for services must be done in person and not by phone. The Williamston of the 21st century is known as a growing bedroom community with easy access to metropolitan areas, a moderate cost of living, and traditional family values. There are fine people, great schools, wonderful neighborhoods with few of the worries of a big city and the modern world. Come to Williamston for The Springwater Festival or Christmas in the Park - or come to stay. Williamston Municipal Center The Williamston Municipal Center was originally constructed by WPA labor in 1939 as Williamston High School. Then in 1953, the building became Williamston Elementary School when Palmetto High School was built. It became Williamston Primary School in 1972 when Palmetto Middle School was formed. In 1983 the remaining primary students were moved to the new Palmetto Primary School. At that time, the building was purchased by the Town of Williamston. Area: 3.668 sq miles (9.5 km²) Upstate SC Information Hub Check out the full listing of community events and festivals happening across the region by clicking the button below.

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‹‹ A Musical Interlude: Kissing In The Dark (Memphis Minnie) Eight US civilians killed in suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan ›› Mary Jackson "I didn't know what day it was when you walked into the room," rasped Rod Stewart some time in the Seventies. Perhaps he was in the Phillipines, Alaska or Samoa. It's New Year's Eve tomorrow. In the meantime (geddit?) here are some Quite Interesting facts about the International Date Line: The Philippines, as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, long had its most important communication with Acapulco in Mexico, and was accordingly placed on the east side of the date line, despite being at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. 00:01 Tuesday in London was 17:21 Monday in Acapulco and about 08:05 Monday in Manila. During the 1840s, trade interests turned to China, the Dutch East Indies and adjacent areas, and the Philippines was changed to the west side of the date line. Monday, 30 December 1844 (ending up as a 365-day year, despite being a leap year) was followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845. Until 1867, Alaska began Russia's day, with the date line following the partially defined border between Russian Alaska and British North America, including the colony of British Columbia. The day before the purchase by the United States took effect, it was Friday, 6 October 1867, in the Julian calendar (used by Russia at the time), which would have been 18 October in the Gregorian calendar. The time in New Archangel would have been 12:00 when it was 12:02, Thursday, 17 October, at the future site of Whitehorse, Yukon, and 12:49, 17 October, at the future site of Vancouver, British Columbia. With the transfer of governance, the date line was shifted (moving Alaska back a day), and the calendar was changed (moving Alaska ahead 12 days), and being effective at midnight the calendar moved ahead one day as well, for a net change of 11 days. Friday, 6 October, was followed by Friday, 18 October (not Saturday, 7 October). Samoa changed in 1892, eight years following the international conference that would result in de facto development of the Date Line. The king was persuaded by American traders to adopt the American date, being three hours behind California, to replace the former Asian date, being four hours ahead of Japan. The change was made at the end of the day on Monday, 4 July 1892, so there were 367 days (1892 being a leap year), including two occurrences of Monday, 4 July. The central Pacific Republic of Kiribati introduced a change of date for its eastern half on 1 January 1995, from time zones −11 and −10 to +13 and +14. Before this, the country was divided by the date line. This meant that the date line in effect moved eastwards to go around this country. As a British colony, Kiribati was centered in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the old date line. Upon independence in 1979, the new republic acquired the Phoenix and Line Islands from the United States and the country found itself straddling the date line. Government offices on opposite sides of the line could only communicate by radio or telephone on the four days of the week when both sides experienced weekdays simultaneously. A consequence of this time zone revision was that Kiribati, by virtue of its easternmost possession, the uninhabited Caroline Atoll at 150°25′ west, started the year 2000 on its territory before any other country on earth, a feature which the Kiribati government capitalized upon as a potential tourist draw. But Ariel and Berger comment that the international community has not taken this date line adjustment very seriously, noting that most world atlases still ignore this Kiribati dateline shift and they continue to represent the International Date as a straight line in the Kiribati area.[1 Suppose the Biltmore Clock, often referenced at this site, had been in Kiribati. What then? Posted on 12/30/2009 3:47 PM by Mary Jackson

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Addressing Malfeasance: Republican Ravalli County versus Democratic Missoula County February 19, 2014 in civil rights, Common Sense, Crime, Missoula, Missoula County Commissioners, Montana, Montana Democrats Lizard has had two posts now calling out local democrats - Thanks for Nothing, Democrats and Rape Culture, Missoula Democrats, and Criminalizing Poverty - on their lack of acting with principles most often associated with the Democratic Party. Lizard points out in his first post that the overwhelmingly progressive city council (yeah, they run as nonpartisans but we all know they're democrats) are working to criminalize homelessness. He points out that the Board of County Commissioners (all democrats) is suing the feds, saying they've no jurisdiction over our county attorney, the illustrious Fred Van Valkenburg, and then Liz points out that oVan Valkenburg - a democrat, himself - chose to not only ignore a county initiative that decriminalized marijuana, but that he actually notched up prosecutions of possession! A comment from former Poverello Director and State Representative Ellie Hill (HD94 - Missoula) takes us to Lizard's second post where he takes on former Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir's recent editorial in support of Van Valkenburg and Missoula County's lawsuit against the feds. Now, admittedly Muir's politics are unknown since he wasn't an elected official - but he is standing not only in support of the very Tea Partyesque lawsuit, he's also referring to the USDOJ as "ultra-liberal." Liz then continues on to call out Ms. Hill's apparent change in positions on her advocacy for the homeless, citing quotes by Hill in Missoulian reporter Keila Szpaller's blog, Missoula Red Tape. For good measure, Lizard closes out his post with reference to former US Representative Pat Williams' 'knucklehead" comment about rapists at the University of Montana, finely documented by the truly lustrous architect of words, Patrick Duganz. Yes, it's hard to find what many might refer to as "true progressives" or "good democrats" here in Missoula these days. Wagons are circled, that's for sure. That "speak no ill" rule certainly applies in state democrat politics. A few days ago a friend pointed out to me that Ravalli County - a conservative Tea Party bastion - sure knows how to address incompetence, even when it involves what is an elected office. That person was right. With unproven allegations of malfeasance, Ravalli Board of County Commissioners had County Treasurer Valerie Stamey escorted from the building by the county sheriff. They then hired an outside audit firm, brought in a interim treasurer and also a retired judge to independently oversee the investigation. Stamey remains on paid leave as the investigation continues. Compare that to Missoula County Board of County Commissioners. With serious allegations made by the USDOJ who have quite clearly said that County Attorney Van Valkenburg has "put women's safety at risk," Van Valkenenburg apparently still has access to his office! There are not only allegations of violations of state and federal law, there is significant documentation by the USDOJ that civil rights were violated - that's the kind of stuff that exposes the county to millions of dollars in lawsuits. Instead, the county steams forward not by addressing the allegations, but on the hope of a now disgraced county attorney who thinks that the feds don't have jurisdiction over civil rights violations. This situation is no longer about who has jurisdiction over who - it's over who violated civil rights and who is going to continue to maintain the status quo. With documented allegations of civil rights violations and the failure of the Board of County Commissioners to act, it's not going to be just Fred Van Valkenburg and Missoula County's name on the lawsuits that have an easy in to being filed. His enablers will also be on the hook, should they fail to act. And - dare I suggest - that may include the State of Montana, since there are documented allegations of state law in that 20 page document also. I've only heard crickets out of Helena, so far. Missoula was worried about the cost of implementing the USDOJ's recommendations? They might start to think about those civil rights lawsuits. That stuff can be real real expensive. Look - Van Valkenburg poked at the dragon. The dragon bit back in a big way. In doing so, the dragon shined a big light on civil rights violations. If anyone things things are going to get easier, they're dreaming. Not only that - Van Valkenburg can't defend himself or the county from these allegations. Consider that. Van Valkenburg had to hire outside council to sue the feds...he and the county sure can't defend themselves against the civil rights violations that are now on their way down the pike. Greg Strandberg That's some pretty good analysis here over the last 2 days. In regard to the attorney, I think the slow wheels are turning and we'll see some action on this soon. At least I hope so. I think the county commissioners need their own attorney, free from any conflict regarding Van Valkenburg. I also don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. It will happen, eventually, out of necessity - but until then, they're going to continue to fund his pipedream of a lawsuit against the feds. Poking that dragon more and more. if the county commissioners continue to support Fred in embarrassing Missoula by stubbornly refusing to cooperate with the DOJ in their mission to improve prosecution of rape and sex assaults and treatment of victims, it is their political funeral. Fred is already dead in the eyes of the majority of the voters of Missoula Rep. Ellie Hill I haven't changed my position on the homeless and I am sort of offended by the suggestion. I do NOT support the current panhandling ordinances and neither do many of my Democratic colleagues. Yes, Councilwoman Copple knows this. Yes, I also still support Councilwoman Copple. In fact, I think she has been a phenomenal voice for economic development on the City Council. I do not demand my elected officials march lockstep. And, I'm certainly not taking my toys and jumping into Lyn Helegaard's sandbox over it. No, I have not been shouting from the mountain tops regarding my opposition to the panhandling ordinances (this round anyway)- and this is deliberate- out of deference to my former employer, the Poverello Center, and the sensitive relationships surrounding the capital campaign for the new building. The support from United Way and the Missoula Downtown Association is critical and I deeply respect everyone involved in that effort. If anyone should understand that, I think "lizard" could cut some folks some slack on how long and how hard SO MANY people have worked towards seeing that to fruition. There is zero doubt those ordinances criminalize constitutionally protected behavior and they are contrary to the very notion of being a Missoulian. The ACLU was correct from the beginning and I wrote every single member of the city council and told them that before the first vote and before the federal courts in Idaho confirmed it. That said, I am proud to be a Missoula County Democrat and a Montana Democrat. "Progressive", "blue dog", "libertarian-leaning", "the New party", "labor", "green"; it seems that whoever we are, and whoever it is circling these wagons, I guess we don't pass 4 and 20 muster anymore unless we load our pistols and start shooting inward. Well, count this former b'birder out then. I don't expect my elected officials to march lock step Elle - if I did, I wouldn't bother voting. And I, too take offense - at the suggestion I've jumped over to Lyn Helegaard's sandbox. Politicians here need to grow some thicker skin or get off the stage. The idea here that any criticism is some sort of personal attack and an attack on all is not only ludicrous, but non-productive. This isn't who said what about who - it's about who voted how on what. Is Liz to stand by as an advocate for homeless and keep his mouth shut about shitty ordinances because they're all democrats that put it in place? With regards to the whole rape scandal, I've listened and read as people everywhere but here in Montana assume that the players are all Republicans. Talk about partisan assumptions. Liz isn't alone in his criticism of Dems and neither am I. But the incest with elected and the party elite isn't, I'm afraid, letting ya'all see it. So be it. No one's predicting any gains for state dems this year - but yeah - it's all our fault. Look inward my friend. I've always supported you, and that's the truth. The shame is, the party hasn't always supported you. City level, state level - they've thrown you under the bus more than once. If you can live with that, that's your choice. For me, I'll still call those hypocrites out and you won't find me smiling and making pleasantries with those who'll choose party over friendships. Well, in the words of one of my favorite Montana Republicans, Duane Ankney from Colstrip: "They come out and said they were going to bury me in this election," "I said, 'Well, get your shovels, boys.'" I think you know me, jhwygirl, I'm loyal to the end, stubborn, but loyal. Let's grab one at the Union Club in a few weeks. I want to run a bill idea past you, re: wild land urban interface. Talk soon. Cheers. lizard19 I have and will continue to use discretion in my approach to discussing matters of importance facing Missoula, so there's the slack. "...I guess we don't pass 4 and 20 muster anymore unless we load our pistols and start shooting inward. Well, count this former b'birder out then." What then, take your marbles and go home? Banishment for Lizard if he fails to "cut some folks some slack?" Obama used this technique effectively to marginalize progressive black activists prior to the 2012 election. Slack, however, is seldom rewarded. Have other viable alternatives been seriously considered? Shooting the messenger has been SOP by both parties for far too long. And the silver lining is a "wildland urban interface bill?" No more bulldozers, please? Lizard, keep up the good work. Endless pressure endlessly applied. Geoff Badenoch Issues like this are terribly complex. The easy part is to line up with those who say anyone who is sexually assaulted is entitled to a respectful, honest and sensitive investigation of the assault. If we imagine the victim as a family member or loved one it becomes even easier. That's where I line up. At the same time, we have a system of justice that protects the rights of the accused, a value I hope everyone agrees is necessary to our liberty. We don't always get it right in either side of an allegation of sexual assault, although we should never stop aiming to bat a thousand in our attempt to be sensitive to victims AND faithfully protect the rights of the accused. I am not convinced or satisfied we can ever stop trying to do better at this. On top of this, though, comes the federal Department of Justice into Missoula County and concludes in its investigation that our elected County Attorney has operated the department in such a way as to less than faithfully serve the needs of victims and deliver justice on their behalf. If true, that is terribly disturbing. But the DOJ findings have not been tested in an arena of advocacy that will require their evidence to be examined in a judicial proceeding. Now that will happen. Why is that important? First, because federal interference in local affairs involving an elected official is serious business. It should not occur lightly. It is so serious that it should be tested. Many people-far from being a Tea Partier/anti-government types-who are not given to dismissive two word assessments like "government overreach" understand the gravity of federal involvement in local law enforcement. Second, the people of Missoula County deserve to know through a judicial examination whether the DOJ report has any merit. If, through a test of the judicial system, Fred VanValkenberg is found wanting in the management of the County Attorney's office, I hope he will do the right thing and resign. I am willing and happy, though, to have my tax dollars spent resolving this question in a court of law with the best legal minds at it. I am willing to recall Fred's years of service to Missoula County and the State of Montana as a legislator and have his work examined by trial. You make some good points. Well said! Fred is relying on "prosecutorial discretion" in his case questioning the feds right to investigate him. That and his belief that no county attorney has ever been investigated. I can't verify whether he's correct on that, and I'm sure not taking is word for it. I have, though, perused the USDOJ civil rights division's website, and there sure are a whole hell of a lot of examples of the USDOJ investigating state AG offices, police, sheriff's - the list goes on. As for the first issue - now think about it - he's arguing that it's his choice to prosecute rape and the feds should stay the hell out of it. And here you are Geoff - one of many, I'll add, so nothing personal here - cheering on the question of federal jurisdiction. That issue is very separate (and not any part) of any determination of whether he is "wanting in the management of the County Attorney's Office." I do believe that the issue of his management of the County Attorney's Office has been pretty thoroughly, in fact, exposed in the USDOJ report. "Boys will be boys," being said to the mother of a 5-year old rape victim? Bible passages read to another? Rapists that confess, yet his office returning forms to the Missoula PD that say "insufficient evidence"? His management has been pretty poor, imo - even if you want to frame the USDOJ work on Fred's addressing of just sexual assaults as anecdotal. "Prosecutorial discretion" is NOT choosing not to prosecute a rapist that confesses. That is a civil rights violation. Equal Protection. The 14th Amendment. Something which the USDOJ most certainly does have jurisdiction over. These issues are indeed complex I hear plenty of people melding together a whole bunch of them. Freddy's case is about USDOJ authority to investigate him - whether they are meddling in the local affairs of prosecutorial discretion. It's important as this community hopefully moves forward in discussion that all issues are kept tucked in their rightful sectors. not really so complex geoff..... Fred is dragging Missoula through the mud to prove a point and to placate a very fragile ego.... the business community and the taxpayers of Missoula are to suck it up for the sake of some legal fine points? let some other county fight the DOJ enrollment is declining at U of M which hurts business.... tourism is suffering..... the very image of Missoula is at stake here.... women victims are coming out with horror stories about how they are treated by Fred and his staff.... rapists confess and there is no prosecution.... a child rape victim's mother is told that "Boys will be Boys" by a member of Fred's staff..... and we should support Fred's refusal to cooperate with DOJ recommendations to improve prosecution and to treat victims with basic human rights..... my mother was right. there is a point when too much thinking produces bad solutions. she called them educated idiots. I am not one of those. i use common sense most of the time. and common sense dictates that splashing national coverage with the lead that Missoula refuses to improve our prosecution of rape and sex assaults and treatment of victims as DOJ suggests sends the world a very bad message. I have talked to mothers and fathers who are pulling their daughters out of U of M over the last dorm room rape from Monday night. but if you are ok with the loss of tourism and the declining enrollment to prove a fine legal point for Fred then go ahead. I just hope that you are aware that the majority of Missoulians are not with you and Fred on this. also, I hope that U of M is ok with the result of this bad publicity. one thing is for certain. the ratio of women to men is declining rapidly. i know my grand daughters aren't going anywhere near U of M if this lawsuit goes forward. Wow, another great response that gets to the heart of a lot of this. Who says this site was going downhill? the site has gone downhill from the peak of activity. if you look at the list of contributors only a few remain active, which is understandable. it's easy to get burned out writing relevant content for free during spare time, and the back and forth of commenting has, at times, been extremely toxic. blogging overall has also seen a decline. we've had local blogs come and go, and the diversity of Montana blogs right now is diminished. notably there are no good conservative blogs around anymore, and the Democrat blogs just do their partisan thing, which is useful when it comes to tracking the crazies on the extreme right, but not so useful when it comes to applying their alleged principles to their own team. Problembear, if you think Fred Van Valkenberg has a "very fragile ego" he is protecting, it makes me wonder if you know Fred Van Valkenberg. Whatever is motivating his actions, my sense of Fred is that it is not due to a fragile ego. This incident as it has unfolded has required discernment and a dogged pursuit of the truth. I simply don't believe that the DOJ report, unchallenged and unanswered can be the gold standard of truth. I have yet to be told about the evidence and have yet to see it cross-examined. What was said? What was heard? We have all had enough experience being misunderstood to see that suspending our judgment pending examination of the DOJ's allegations is worthy. Yes, Missoula's and the University's reputations have been sullied by the allegations played out in our courtrooms and out newspapers. One case, where the accused was the UM star quarterback resulted in an acquittal, in other words, not guilty. So, a not guilty person, because of his notoriety as a UM star athelete, was dragged through the headlines for a year or so, causing what the world sees as a stain on our community. That's terrible. Was he really guilty though? Did he really do it and just get off because of crafty lawyers or weak-minded judges and jurors? Here's the hard truth: if he was innocent, Missoula got a bad rap and we can hold our heads high and suck it up until the world forgets. On the other hand, if he did it, and got away with it leaving his victim unfairly shamed and discredited, it clearly demonstrates why prosecutors-even with a case they are ready to take to trial-are so often reluctant to do so. The loss is not only theirs, but the victim is doubly violated. Is there something to be learned from that? Sure. The pursuit of the Truth, as noble and necessary as it is, is not a journey with a certain, immediate destination. Deeper examination of the facts is all that takes us away from judgment by innuendo, unsupported allegation and humbuggery. Rather than sweep the DOJ findings away dismissively, I say give them a thorough going over and then act on what comes up. Geoff- The mayor of Bozeman agrees with most of Montana on this- quoted from article.php?article_id=1158 "My thoughts after time passed became more reflective. I certainly understand how public life can be risky, where making mistakes or even 'business as usual' attitudes can lure me into overlooking a problem. But the best way of dealing with great risk is to enthusiastically endorse a way forward. "So you've seen the MUS (Montana University System) cooperating fully and adopting the recommendations - even if we weren't in "consensus" about the details of the reports or even if we agreed every recommendation is a good idea. Furthermore, the City of Missoula agreed to move forward with the DOJ. Again, it is not about 100% agreement with findings. It is about getting much better in our attitudes and procedures dealing with sexual assault, fully implementing Title IX, and moving forward in our duties to protect and serve. "The first step to making progress is to stop excusing the past and just admit we have a problem. And if one of our critical partners, like Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg, won't take that step, we don't make progress. The system breaks down, and the community of Montana can't move forward. "When the issues needing progress are the safety of women on our campuses, and the civil rights of victims, and the safety of the daughters of Montanans attending UM and Missoula College, I'm not willing to accept anything but rapid, immediate, effective progress. As a Regent of the Montana University System, the words of the DOJ report speak directly to my duties and obligations to the women attending and working on the Missoula campuses. In fact, the whole state has a stake in the safety of the women on the campuses in Missoula County. We have a stake in the success of one of our proudest institutions - The University of Montana - and in the reputation of "The Garden City." It's time to stop fighting over the past and instead look to how we all work together to restore those reputations and, more importantly, send the message that Missoula and The University of Montana are great, welcoming, safe places for women." Also, our own Mayor and current police chief- From yesterday's Missoulian.... It's close to a year since the city of Missoula entered into an agreement with the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and we're the better for it. In the wake of continuing conflict between the DOJ and the Missoula County Attorneys Office and a recent (Feb. 18) opinion piece by Missoula's former police chief, we think it's important to remind the public we serve where the city of Missoula stands when it comes to the safety of women in our community. We're more responsive and sensitive to the needs of victims of sexual assault, we're operating under better policies and procedures, we are better trained, we are cooperating better with our partners in law enforcement, the criminal justice system and the community, we're reorganizing our staff and remodeling our facilities to better serve victims and we're opening ourselves to external review in an effort to ensure that we're always improving and that we're accountable to the citizens we serve. Since May, when we finalized our agreement with the Civil Rights Division, our team has worked tirelessly to meet the letter and spirit of that agreement, which calls for a victim-centered approach to investigating sexual assault. Here's what's different today from a year ago: • Nearly every one of Missoula's police officers has received extensive training in sexual-assault response from a widely respected trainer using nationally recognized best practices. Our officers have been joined by the staff of the University of Montana's Office of Public Safety, the county attorney and members of his staff. • We have updated our policies and procedures around sexual-assault cases, ensuring that we're communicating more frequently and thoughtfully with victims, more assertively following up with suspects and turning over the best possible investigations to prosecutors, then following up with their charging decision and documenting those decisions. The city of Missoula, University of Montana and Missoula County Attorney's Office have agreements in place designed to enhance interagency cooperation with regard to sexual assault. • Each of our sexual-assault cases is reviewed by an independent, community-based team responsible for holding us accountable to our policies and practices. We make changes in policy, procedure and personnel based on these reviews. • Soon, we'll participate in our first annual community audit of our response that will assess how we, the University of Montana and the Missoula County Attorney's Office are collaborating to address sexual assault, "with a focus on enhancing victim safety, support and participation in the law-enforcement process." Today, the women and men of the Missoula Police Department are working diligently every day to ensure that we're taking care of victims of sexual assault better than any other city in America. We're not grudgingly operating under an agreement with the federal government, but operating in the best interests of the community we're sworn to protect and serve. Mike Brady is the city of Missoula's police chief and John Engen is Missoula's mayor. And Geoff. You are right. I don't know Fred Van Valkenburg. I don't have a membership to Missoula Country Club. I do however know that the louder a dog barks, the smaller he becomes..... " Rape Culture, Missoula Democrats, and Criminalizing Poverty Blogging is Far From Being Dead " Leave a Reply to Greg Strandberg Cancel reply

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FILE - In this April 30, 2019 file photo Sterling Van Wagenen, left, pleads guilty during his initial appearance in American Fork, Utah. Wagenen, who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s has been sentenced on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, to at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune, via AP, Pool, File) Filmmaker sentenced again in second sexual abuse case WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) - A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday on a sexual abuse charge for the second time in as many weeks. Under the terms of a plea agreement, Sterling Van Wagenen avoided... 'The Father' wins Karlovy Vary film fest's top prize PRAGUE (AP) - "The Father," a movie directed by Bulgaria's filmmaking duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, has won the top prize at the 54th edition of an international film festival in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary. The movie was chosen from 12 contenders for the Crystal Globe by the... Jury member Elle Fanning poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) Fanning says she's been transformed by Cannes experience CANNES, France (AP) - Elle Fanning says she's been transformed by her experience as the youngest juror ever at the Cannes Film Festival. The 21-year-old actress said Saturday after the festival's closing ceremony that she will never forget her time as a juror and she didn't want it to be over... Director Bong Joon-ho poses with the Palme d'Or award for the film 'Parasite' during a photo call following the awards ceremony at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 25, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) Bong d'Or: Korean director wins Cannes' top prize CANNES, France (AP) - South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's raucous social satire "Parasite," about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family, won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or, on Saturday. The win for "Parasite" marks the first Korean film to ever win the... Director Bong Joon-ho poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Parasite' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) The Latest: Bong Joon-ho's satire "Parasite" wins Palme d'Or CANNES, France (AP) - The Latest on the Cannes Film Festival (all times local): 8:25 p.m. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's social satire "Parasite," about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family, has won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or. The win for "... Director Quentin Tarantino poses for photographers with the Palm Dog collar award for the the dog Brandy that appeared in his film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Quentin Tarantino wins top dog award at Cannes Film Festival CANNES, France (AP) - Whether or not Quentin Tarantino wins the Palme d'Or this year, at least he's not coming home without a trophy. The director of the Cannes Film Festival entry "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" scooped up the top prize at the Palm Dog Awards. The awards are handed out... Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Brad Pitt pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) With Brad and Leo, Tarantino debuts a fairy tale in Cannes CANNES, France (AP) - Twenty-five years after premiering "Pulp Fiction" in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with neither great vengeance nor furious anger but a gentler fairy tale about 1960s Los Angeles. "Once Upon a Time In ... Hollywood" made its much-anticipated... 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(Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP) 'The Lighthouse,' with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes CANNES, France (AP) - Robert Eggers' "The Lighthouse," starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as turn-of-the-century lighthouse keepers, kicked up a storm Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival with a wave-making, madhouse period tale that seemingly washed ashore from another era. "The Lighthouse... This image released by Cinetic Marketing shows a scene from the film "The Climb," starring Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin. (Cinetic Marketing via AP) On two wheels, 'The Climb' rides through Cannes as a hit CANNES, France (AP) - Some stars and directors come to the Cannes Film Festival by boat, others by private jet. Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin pretty much cycled their way into Cannes. Covino's "The Climb," in which he and Marvin star as lifelong friends, opens on a French mountain. One of...

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Home /Nicaraguan Man Dies While In Border Patrol Custody In Arizona Nicaraguan Man Dies While In Border Patrol Custody In Arizona A Nicaraguan man who was in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody died early Friday morning, the agency reported. The 52-year-old man was among 36 people from Central America who surrendered to Border Patrol agents west of Sasabe, Arizona, according to a CBP statement. Immigration officials were processing the group at a facility in Tuscon. CBP said the man fell into "medical distress" and was rushed to the hospital. Efforts by emergency responders and CBP agents to revive him were unsuccessful, the statement said. The agency did not provide the man's name. "The men and women of U.S. Customs and Border Protection are saddened to report that a 52-year-old man from Nicaragua was pronounced deceased early this morning after he was rushed to the hospital," the agency said. "Our condolences are with his family." "CBP is committed to the health, safety and humane treatment of those in our custody." NO. You're not. These deaths wouldn't be occurring if that were the case. How many more need to die for us to react as a nation? - RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) July 5, 2019 The man's death comes six days after another migrant, a man from Honduras, died while in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas. ICE officials found the Honduran man, 30-year-old Yimi Alexis Balderramons-Torres, unresponsive in his detention cell on Sunday. He was taken to a Houston hospital, where he was pronounced dead. So far, 12 migrants have died in the custody of U.S. immigration officials, according to a tally by CNN. Earlier Friday, President Donald Trump defended worsening conditions at U.S. detention centers near the border while speaking to reporters outside of the White House. "I think the Border Patrol has done an incredible job," Trump said. The president also boasted about the overcrowded migrant detention centers, which have been at the center of several damning watchdog reports, and the agents who run them. "I've seen some of those places, and they're run beautifully. They're clean, they're good, they do a great job," Trump said. Charlie Riedel/ASSOCIATED PRESS A portion of the border barrier at Nogales, Arizona. A report released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General detailed dirty, crowded and inhumane conditions at detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border. Included in the report was a photo taken at a detention center in Fort Brown Station in South Texas showing 88 men crowded into a room with a maximum capacity of 41. One man held a sign that read: "HELP 40 Days Here." Another photo showed men, women and children crowded in a cage at a detention center in McAllen, Texas. The inspector general's office released a report in May describing conditions that left detainees in soiled clothing for weeks.

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New Jersey becoming a hot spot for filmmakers By Darla Miles PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- New Jersey might not be the new Hollywood, but it's certainly getting a lot of attention by filmmakers. Many studios are using the Garden State as a backdrop to upcoming films. The latest is Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story," but there's also the new "Sopranos" prequel and several new Netflix shows. The trend is not only putting New Jersey on the map, but it's also bringing in big bucks for local communities. Military transport vehicles and street signs in Polish are classic images from World War II. But a closer look at one movie set, and you'll see Paterson City Hall in the background. "Paterson has become a hub for the film industry," Mayor Andre Sayegh said. "You've had the city transformed into Warsaw, Poland; London, England; and Zagreb, Croatia for three different sets." Over the last year, TV and movie sets -- and even actors in full costume -- have been popping up all around town. Productions like "The Hunt," "The Plot Against America" starring Winona Ryder, and the new "West Side Story" are all on location in Paterson. "This did not exist this time last year," Sayegh said. "I believe it's because of our beautiful bones in Paterson. We have the architecture, so you can essentially re-create anything." Last fall, Governor Phil Murphy reinstated tax credits for the film industry, 30 percent of the total production budget. And on top of that, the city sweetens the pot with highly competitive location fees. "There are benefits, long-term benefits, because other films are going to come and they're going to start investing in the local economy," Sayegh said. "And then here's the multiplier effect. You got crews. They get hungry." And that's exactly what happened when the sopranos prequel was shooting a scene on Ellison Street, across from Gionvanni Pizzeria, in April. "All of them (came)," owner Giovanni Kiyan said. "The whole crew." In fact, Mayor Sayegh says "The Hunt" generated $40,000 for downtown businesses. "It obviously enhances our image," he said. "It raises our profile. And people can brag about Paterson." * More New Jersey news arts & entertainmentpatersonentertainmentmovies

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October 5, 2014 November 1, 2016 - by ACME Admin - Leave a Comment This is a description of the 20 competition categories in the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2017. Individual or shared byline entries can be made for all categories. Editorial managers and members of the public may also nominate a journalist for an award. If you need further clarification on the awards, please write to awards [at] acme-ug [dot] org, subject line: Uganda National Journalism Awards 2017. Agriculture reporting This award will recognize the best agriculture writing or production in Uganda. Entries must have farming practice, agriculture policy, trends, research, innovation or trade at their core. Broader themes of hunger, nutrition, climate change and environment may be accepted if the entries demonstrate their link and impact on the agriculture sector. Arts and culture journalism The award for this category recognizes articles or broadcasts that provide excellent context and background to artistic critique and offer nuances and provocative insights into the arts and culture sector. Judges will acknowledge stories that are informed by in-depth knowledge of the historical, political and aesthetic forces that shape arts and culture in Uganda. Business, economic and financial reporting This award will be given to a business, economic or financial news story that demonstrates excellence, creativity and journalistic merit. This award honors work that best features and presents data journalism on print, broadcast or digital. The award will focus on the effectiveness of the data to tell a story, how well the data are presented to users, the journalistic impact and relevance of the data, and the design and functionality of the data presentation. This award will be granted to an entry that displays visual commentary featuring art, argument and humor. The editorial cartoons must have appeared in a Ugandan print or online magazine or newspaper. Each cartoonist is allowed to submit one entry consisting of three separate editorial cartoons. The entry will be judged on this show of work. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the story's chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation. This award will be given to the story that makes an exceptional contribution to public awareness and understanding of education issues in Uganda. Energy, oil, gas and mineral resources This award will be given to excellent reporting that enhances understanding of Uganda's energy and natural resources sector. The subject may be on any form of energy - oil, gas, nuclear, water, solar, mineral resources, etc. Environment reporting This award will be given to a story that makes an exceptional contribution to public awareness and understanding of environmental issues. The report or series represents not just exceptional journalism, but also reporting with the potential to bring constructive change. Explanatory reporting This award is for exemplary in-depth analysis and clear presentation of complex issues. Entries should explain a relevant, meaningful and multifaceted subject to audiences through clear storytelling and presentation. Entries will be judged on the quality of journalism, creative and appropriate uses of media. The award will be granted to the feature treatment of any human interest, lifestyle or news topic. Entries can be profiles, interviews, news features, trend stories or narrative stories. Health reporting The winning entry to this award will be judged on the excellence in covering a wide range of issues including public health, medical research, the business of health care, disease and health ethics. This award recognizes excellence in reporting, through one's own initiative and work product, matters of importance to the audience. In many cases, the subjects of the reporting wish maters under scrutiny to remain undisclosed. The reporting must not be based on an investigation made by someone else. It is permissible to use excerpts from official records and investigations, but only incidentally and not as primary proof of the investigative conclusion. Justice, law and order Judging of this award will be based on reporting that shows an in-depth knowledge of the full range of issues in Uganda's justice system and use a journalist's contacts to bring readers the full story. The award-winning journalist will go the beyond the crime statistics and tell the story of the victims of crime. Multimedia journalism The award for this category will be presented to a journalist who makes the best use of new media/multimedia technology in their coverage of a single feature story or special project series. To qualify, a journalist must demonstrate the use of no less than three distinct tools in storytelling. Attention will be given to the creative use of new media and how well it contributes to the reader's in-depth understanding of the issue. Multimedia components might include (but are not limited to) graphics, photo galleries, video or interactive elements. Time stamps should be visible on these entries. URLs should be provided. National news reporting This award will be granted to a distinguished reporting on national affairs with significant impact on Uganda. Two separated prizes for broadcast and print entries will be granted. The photojournalism award will be given to a photographer who displays excellence and creativity in the visual presentation of a breaking news, a feature or a subject of human interest with journalistic merit. The photos must have been first published or broadcast by Ugandan media. A photographer may submit a one photograph for a single story or no more than four photographs for a story series or feature. Political reporting This award will go to a journalist whose coverage helps develop a unique understanding of politics, key players and the political process. Judges will look for reporting that is particularly innovative, issue-focused and informs audiences about their democratic and political choices. Local reporting This prize will recognize the work of reporters based outside of Kampala who provide a clear understanding of events, issues and politics of importance to their town, districts or regions. It honors reporters who demonstrate excellence and versatility in covering local issues from a local angle. This award will go to a journalist whose coverage explores new avenues and finds a new direction in reporting sports. It will also recognize a journalist who brings sporting occasions or sporting events to life with the quality of reporting and/or who produces agenda-setting news on subjects of great general interest. Call for entries - Uganda National Journalism Awards, 2015 Uganda National Journalism Awards 2016 - The journey begins Previous Article Phone app to outsmart corruption Next Article Entry rules and submission guidelines

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Canterbury Cathedral, Dover Castle, and White Cliffs Enjoy a day tour by mini-coach to the county of Kent, known traditionally as the Garden of England. Stop to visit historic Canterbury Cathedral, see the famous White Cliffs of Dover and take a tour of Dover Castle, the largest castle in the country. Visit historic Canterbury Cathedral See the famous White Cliffs of Dover Learn about the history of Dover Castle, the largest castle in England On this full-day excursion from London, your first stop will be the historic cathedral city of Canterbury. There's plenty to see in Canterbury, including the Cathedral, St. Martin's Church and St. Augustine's Abbey. Pilgrims have made their way to Canterbury Cathedral since the Middle Ages, and it remains popular today with visitors from around the world. You'll travel on to the coast to see the White Cliffs of Dover, one of the country's most spectacular natural features. An icon of Britain, the White Cliffs have been a sign of hope and freedom for centuries. Take a walk along the clifftops and look out over the busy English Channel. On a clear day you'll be able to see across to France. Just a short drive up the road from the White Cliffs of Dover is Dover Castle, one of the largest castles in the country, strategically placed at the shortest crossing point to continental Europe. The castle has played a prominent role in Britain's history, and dates back to the Iron Age. A Roman lighthouse and Anglo-Saxon church still stand within the grounds. Admission to the castle is included in the tour and you'll also have some free time to explore the grounds. Visit to the White Cliffs of Dover Admission to Dover Castle Visit to Canterbury and admission to Canterbury Cathedral Round-trip transportation by luxury coach Services of a tour manager Not suitable for London Bridge, at 09:00 am, outside tube station entrance on Tooley Street by bus stop S. From US$ 112.15 per person White Cliffs of Dover and Canterbury: Day-Trip from London From London: Leeds Castle, Canterbury Cathedral & Dover Leeds Castle, Canterbury Cathedral, Dover, and Greenwich From US$ 131.49 See all reviews Couples Family Group of friends Anderson Tours Barcelona Day Trips Budapest Cruises & Water Tours Bordeaux Wine Tasting & Winery Tours Amsterdam Day Trips Amsterdam City Cards Edinburgh Harry Potter Tours

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TBL: S2 E1 - J.... Jul12019 "SHOP LOCAL!" is a big deal for my wife and I. As business owners, we understand the importance of supporting as many locally-owned businesses as possible. Thus, we're always on the lookout for great Kansas City companies and brands. So, when Lauren asked me, "hey, did you see that new distillery opening up in the East Bottoms?," I had to check it out. What a find! Not only is J. Rieger & Co. opening a new distillery, they have renovated an old building which used to be a bottling facility for The Heim Brewery! How neat is that? After following J. Rieger & Co. on Instagram, I started to learn a little about the history of company. Originally founded in 1887, the whisky brand was forced to shut down due to prohibition in 1919. Nearly a century later, the brand has been resurrected and history is being restored to the Kansas City area via their incredible new distillery. Take a listen as I interview Ryan Maybee, one of the co-founders of the company, to hear the fascinating story of J. Rieger & Co.! Make a date to visit their new facility which opens July 12th, 2019! J. Rieger & Co. Instagram (@jriegerco) J. Rieger & Co. on Facebook J. Rieger & Co. website EPISODE RECAP: The history of J. Rieger & Co., where it started, how it was resurrected nearly 100 . years later. The incredible story of how a descendent of Jacob Rieger, original founder of the company, became involved in helping rebuild the brand Details of the new J. Rieger and Co. distillery in the East Bottom district of Kansas City, MO The history of the East Bottoms district, Electric Park and the old Heim Brewery bottling facility which is now the J. Rieger & Co. distillery PreviousPrevious : 030 - Developing a customer relationship process in a service-based businessNextNext : S2 E2 - The importance of business efficiency to your bottom line and how to measure it TBL: 030 - Developing a customer relationship process in a service-based business

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Please welcome Dr. Ajay Antony to the... Please welcome Dr. Ajay Antony to the Department! Dr. Antony joined us on July 1, 2016, as an Assistant Professor for the Division of Chronic Pain. He comes to us from our very own department where he served as Chief Resident and completed his internship and fellowship in Pain Medicine. Dr. Antony was awarded the Michael E. Mahla Outstanding Resident of the Year Award, Best Resident for Outstanding Dedication and Service to the Department, and Outstanding Resident Teacher Award. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Integrative Biology at "the Gator Nation" and earned his MD at St. George University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Basic Cardiac Life Support and is a member of many professional academic societies such as the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and many more. Dr. Antony has given many lectures and has presented his research at the International Meeting of the American Thoracic Society, not to mention having published articles abstracts. We are excited to have such an accomplished doctor joining us and we ask you to help us welcome him as a faculty member to the department and university!

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Photo Platform Everpix Adds Image Recognition Feature With two children under the age of 5, I've got a massive amount of digital photos and absolutely no time to sort through thousands of images. That's where Everpix comes in. The photo platform syncs unlimited, full-resolution photos to the cloud and categorizes each image. Along with a Web interface, the service's iOS app has been updated today with some new features. Probably the biggest new addition is the Explore feature. By using a proprietary algorithm, Everpix recognizes and sorts photos on a content level - like babies, landscapes, pets, cars, food, and more. Version 1.5 of the app also brings improved AirPlay support for users streaming photos to an Apple TV. Along with the update, Everpix has introduced a freemium tier. Everpix Free will offer unlimited storage of 12 months worth of full-resolution photos for no charge. Everpix is a universal app designed for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad/iPad mini. It can be downloaded in the App Store now for free. Regular subscriptions can be purchased for $49 per year or $4.99 per month. Users can print any of their photos at any one of more than 8,000 Walgreen's locations across the United States. Images can also be easily shared with family and friends via email. I've been an Everpix user for a few months, and can highly recommend the service. While I was at first wary of the subscription fees, its nice to have all of my precious memories stored and sorted in the cloud. And the iOS app does a very nice job of displaying all of your images. If you're looking for other Photo Sharing Apps, take a look at our AppList. Everpix 33cube, Inc. YouTube Update Adds The AirPlay-Like Ability To Stream Videos DIAL: Netflix And Google To Take On Apple's AirPlay With New Second-Screen Protocol

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" Somalia to Thailand, the same story of Pak-Afghan Terrorism Pakistani army: Taliban holding town hostage : Latest from Buner " The Death and Resurrection of Osama bin Laden, The Faliure of Pak, Afghan And US Governments. Bin Laden's voice was detected regularly until [14 December 2001] by intelligence operatives monitoring radio transmissions in Tora Bora, according to the Pentagon [details]. Since then, nothing has been heard from the al-Qa'eda leader and President Bush has hinted in private that bin Laden's silence could mean he has been killed. [Telegraph, 12/28/2001] Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival?[New York Times. July 11, 2002]Bin Laden has often been reported to be in poor health. Some accounts claim that he is suffering from Hepatitis C, and can expect to live for only two more years. According to Le Figaro, last year [2000] he ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to his base at Kandahar in Afghanistan. [Guardian]Peter Bergen: Bin Laden has aged 'enormously' This is a man who was clearly not well. I mean, as you see from these pictures here, he's really, by December [2001] he's looking pretty terrible. Bin Laden December 27, 2001 video Healthy bin Laden But by December, of course, that tape that was aired then, he's barely moving the left side of his body. So he's clearly got diabetes. He has low blood pressure. He's got a wound in his foot. He's apparently got dialysis ... for kidney problems. [CNN] The [December 27, 2001 video] was dismissed by the Bush administration ... as sick propaganda possibly designed to mask the fact the al-Qa'eda leader was already dead. "He could have made the video and then ordered that it be released in the event of his death," said one White House aide. [Telegraph] Pakistan's Musharraf: Bin Laden probably dead Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease. [A Bush administration official] said U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it is fairly obvious that that could be an issue when you are running from place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate electricity in a mountain hideout." [CNN] Renal dialysis - talking about hemodialysis - is something that really is reserved for patients in end-stage renal failure. That means their kidneys have just completely shut down. The most common cause of something like that would be something like diabetes and hypertension. Once that's happened, if you're separated from your dialysis machine - and incidentally, dialysis machines require electricity, they're going to require clean water, they're going to require a sterile setting - infection is a huge risk with that. If you don't have all those things and a functioning dialysis machine, it's unlikely that you'd survive beyond several days or a week at the most. [CNN] Karzai: bin Laden 'probably' dead Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. [CNN] FBI: Bin Laden 'probably' dead The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead. [BBC] Magazine runs what it calls bin Laden's will The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it published Saturday was written late last year [2001] by Osama bin Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon." [CNN] Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader. "The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said. [FOX News] Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper: al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633 News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral 10 days ago A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. [Welfare State] Osama bin who? Israel does not view bin Laden as a threat. [Janes] Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported. [World Tribune] [See also The Fake bin Laden Audio Tape] [See also Benazir Bhutto says Osama is dead.] Officials, friends can't confirm Bin Laden death report POSTED: 11:12 a.m. EDT, September 24, 2006 Story HighlightsStory Highlights • France's Chirac, U.S. intelligence downplay report that bin Laden is dead • Report's source is leaked French defense ministry documents • Saudi source tells CNN bin Laden is ill with a water-borne disease • Bin Laden's brother-in-law says he has heard no report of al Qaeda leader's death PARIS, France (CNN) - A report that Osama bin Laden is dead has set off a flurry of denials from U.S., French and Pakistani officials, who say the newspaper report citing French intelligence cannot be independently confirmed. A Saudi intelligence official, however, told CNN on Saturday that the al Qaeda leader is suffering from a waterborne illness. There have been credible reports that the most wanted man in the world is ill, but there is no intelligence indicating he is dead, the source said. L'Est Republicain, citing a September 21 French foreign intelligence document, reported that Saudi officials had received confirmation that bin Laden died August 23 of typhoid fever in Pakistan. (Watch what intelligence information reveals about bin Laden's condition - 1:59 "We believe this reporting to be unsubstantiated," a U.S. intelligence official said. Other U.S. intelligence officials concurred, and White House spokesman Blair Jones said, "We have no confirmation of that report." (Watch a former CIA director explain how this report could be confirmed -3:34) A senior White House official with access to intelligence reports added that he has made several calls to senior government officials and could not verify the report. Across the Atlantic, French President Jacques Chirac said the report was "in no way confirmed" and that he was initiating an investigation into who leaked the confidential document to L'Est Republicain. (Watch French reporter sticking to his story - 1:51) "I was rather surprised to see that a confidential note from the [General Directorate for External Security] was published, and I have asked the minister of defense to start an investigation immediately and to reach whatever conclusions are necessary," Chirac said after trade talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Compiegne, France. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Friend, family weigh in. Bin Laden's brother-in-law, Jamal Khalifa, who was the al Qaeda leader's best friend when they were university students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, told CNN that he has heard no report of bin Laden's death. The Saudi-based businessman has been married to bin Laden's sister, Shaikha, since 1986. Khaled Batarfi, a managing editor at the Saudi newspaper Al Madina and who was close friends with bin Laden when they were teenagers, said he remains in touch with bin Laden's immediate family in Jeddah. Family members said Saturday they had heard nothing to confirm the report, Batarfi told CNN. Despite the fervent denials, journalist Laid Sammari, who wrote the article, said in a telephone interview that he was confident the classified document was authentic. His article states that Saudi secret service agents on September 4 received reports of bin Laden's death. Saudi officials plan to make an official announcement after they confirm the burial site for the al Qaeda leader, Sammari said. In Pakistan, officials said Saturday that they had no confirmation of bin Laden's death. On Friday, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf confirmed President Bush's earlier statement that the hunt for bin Laden is still on. Al Qaeda was behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. The U.S. State Department is offering a $25 million reward for information leading directly to bin Laden's arrest or conviction, according to the FBI. The Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association are offering an additional $2 million reward. Bin Laden's most recent public message came June 30, when an audio recording was posted on an Islamic Web site. He stated that Abu Hamza al-Muhajer had replaced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier in June. The CIA confirmed the voice on the tape was bin Laden's. The al Qaeda leader's most recent videotaped statement was aired October 29, 2004, on Al-Jazeera. CNN's Katie Turner, Pam Benson, Peter Bergen, Elise Labott and Nic Robertson contributed to this report. Pakistan's President says Osama bin Laden could be dead Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has raised the prospect that Osama bin Laden could be dead after he said that intelligence officials could find "no trace" of the al-Qaeda chief. By Dean Nelson and Emal Khan in Peshawar Last Updated: 6:25AM BST 28 Apr 2009 An image from 1998 shows Osama Bin Laden speaking to selected reporters in the mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan Photo: AP He said that neither his own advisers in Pakistan nor US intelligence agencies had detected any trace of the al-Qaeda leader since Al Jazeera television broadcast an audio recording of his voice in March. But even then, unlike on previous occasions the authenticity of the voice purporting to be bin Laden was not confirmed by the CIA. There have been regular reports of bin Laden's ill health, notably speculation about his kidneys failing. Mr Zardari said his own advisers believed there was substance to the rumours. "The question is whether he is alive or dead. There is no trace of him," he said. "There is no news. They obviously feel that he does not exist any more but that's not confirmed." Mr Zardari's predecessor, Pervez Musharraf, similarly suggested that the Saudi terror chief could be dead. But US officials have repeatedly stated that bin Laden could yet be hiding in the mountainous region straddling the Afghan-Pakistan border. Mr Zardari's comments came as he sought to reassure the international community that it need not worry over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, had voiced her fears that they could fall into Taliban hands if the Pakistani government failed to halt the militants' advance throughout its North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Militants were last week repelled from their positions in Buner, just 60 miles from the capital Islamabad. Her remarks followed earlier claims to a US Congressional committee that Pakistan was "abdicating to the Taliban" by making peace deals in places like the Swat Valley, where ministers had agreed to introduce Sharia law in exchange for an end to a militant insurgency. That latest deal is unravelling after the Pakistan army killed 46 Taliban fighters in the space of two days, including two senior commanders in Malakand's Lower Dir district, in a series of helicopter gunship strikes. They were called in after the NWFP government said the Taliban had broken the truce deal by pushing beyond the Swat Valley to neighbouring districts like Buner and Lower Dir. A Taliban spokesman, Muslim Khan, last night warned his fighters would attack government forces throughout the district if the government did not immediately halt its offensive. No Confirmation about Laden's Death Updated: Monday, April 27, 2009, 16:05|| IrishTimes.com|| Last updated on April 29, 2009, 18:15 by Agencies.|| Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari said today that the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remained a mystery and there was a suspicion that he could be dead. Mr Zardari said US officials had told him that they had no trace of the al-Qaeda leader, although they habitually say he is most likely in Pakistan. Pakistan's own intelligence agencies had no confirmation of Bin Laden's status either, Mr Zardari said. "There is no news," the president said. "They obviously feel that he does not exist anymore but that's not confirmed, we can't confirm that." Al Jazeera aired excerpts of an audio recording in March in which the speaker's voice sounded like earlier messages from Bin Laden, who has eluded all efforts to catch him since al-Qaeda carried out the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States. Bin Laden's 52nd birthday was on March 10th. He is known to suffer from ill-health. There have been reports that he had died of natural causes in the past, but they have never been corroborated, and security analysts believe intelligence agencies monitoring jihadi websites on the internet would have picked up some chatter. nReuters . It is difficult to say, whether Osama is dead or alive. Whether he is a good friend of Obama, Karzai, Musarraf or Muslim mass being endangered by the isolation threat out of an Islamist terrorism. But a fun realms that Osama generally prefers breakfast with Zardari, lunch with Karzai and dinner with Obama. And only Allah knows where Osama sleeps at night. But the reality runs that Ghost Osama is more dangerous than Osama live Laden. Laden is still the prime inspiration of all Islamist terror forces. Tags: Fake Death of Osama bin Laden, Faliure of Pak-Afghan-US Govts, Is Laden dead or alive? This entry was posted on April 30, 2009 at 5:27 am and is filed under Osama bin Laden, Talibans in Pakistan, Terrorism, Uncategorized. 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.

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Aliens Futuristic The US government made a pact with Aliens for otherworldly technology There are numerous Ufologists who claim that extraterrestrial beings have worked with our government for years. This theory, which has been seriously ridiculed by many, might actually be true since numerous scientists and governmental official have come forward suggesting that there is more to alien life on Earth than previously believed. Philip Schneider was a man who is believed to have come forward with highly classified information. He was a geologist and structural engineer of the Government of the United States and was involved in the construction of deep underground military bases in the United States with the Army Corps of Engineers.He was one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys and US intelligence and military forces at Dulce underground base. At Dulce, Schneider maintained, "gray" humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of "grays". Philip Schneider's father, Oscar Schneider was a medical advisor to the US Navy. During the last two years of his life, Phil Schneider gave over 30 lectures to a variety of audiences around the world talking about highly classified information of the government involving alien technology, alien weapons, experiments and pacts between governments worldwide and aliens. Many people remained skeptical about what Schneider had brought forward and much of his life was seriously questioned by people worldwide. He was ridiculed by many, but there were many who believed that what Schneider was telling was the absolute truth, something that no one dared to talk about. Mysteriously in 1996, Schneider was found dead in his apartment. Authorities said it was a suicide, but many people believe that Schneider was killed because he had leaked extremely classified information to the public. In 1954, former President Dwight Eisenhower, made a pact with three species of aliens, Schneider said at a conference in 1995. n exchange for alien technology, Eisenhower allegedly gave permission for the aliens to abduct a limited number human beings to perform numerous experiments on Earth and in space. Schneider said that many of the thousands people who have gone missing around the world, may have been taken by aliens. He said there are nine races of aliens who see the human race as "a bag of food." According to Schneider, the technology that aliens gave us as part of this exchange includes a type of metal that is almost indestructible. Schneider showed the audience what he said was a piece of this metal.It is made of niobium, an element that we have in the periodic table, and Marinite, a strange element which is not found on Earth. But there were other technological utilities that aliens gave to humans thanks to the pacts. The government was able to develop a spy satellite with help of aliens that can detect a penny on the floor of your kitchen according to Schneider. This spy-satellite uses some sort of infrared technology with a resolution factor of 99.99961. But this pact was broken by the aliens since they have abducted way more aliens than agreed. According to Schneider, since the pact was broken there have been tensions among alien races and humans.

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AMBASSADORS 2018/19 MEET THE ALPINA WATCHES WINTER AMBASSADORS All Alpina "family" members - the "Alpinists" - are united by a common aim. They seek performance and progress when facing a challenge in extremely demanding environments. They successfully accomplish their missions by applying the "Alpinist" principles: We only associate with friends and partners that - like us - truly share, live and work according to these principles, and we hope that any person who adheres to them, and wishes to promote them, will one day decide to wear an Alpina watch, thereby becoming an "Alpinist". That our Ambassadors are Alpine skiers, snowboarders, free riders, ice-skaters, divers, adventurers, or skipper, they all share our values, care about the Outdoor environment and best represent the Alpinist attitude! Take a moment to learn more about them and follow them along their different worldwide competitions, events or adventures. Luca spent his first years in Crans-Montana where he discovered skiing and where he became a member of the ski club "Les Barzettes (Randogne)". At the age of 4, his family moved to the region of Berne, but continued to go to Crans-Montana to perfect his skills. Even though he loved playing soccer, Luca realized his passion for skiing was far bigger. He is now a National athlete for the Swiss Ski Team. During his first performance in the 2013 Junior World Championships, he took the podium celebrating with an amazing 2nd place. In 2014 he won the National Championships in Saint Moritz in 2014. In 2017, he won the Gold Medal in the World Championships in Saint Moritz in the Super Combination category. aerniluca lucaaerni Seastrong Horological Smartwatch (ref. AL-282LBB4V6) CHARLOTTE CHABLE Charlotte started skiing at the age of two on the slopes of Villars and then began her career at the Ski Club before joining the NLZ's Team. Her specialty is slalom skiing which has always been a passion for her and she enjoys the rush that this sport offers. Today Charlotte is a National athlete and a proud member of the Swiss-Ski Federation in the hopes of becoming one of the best skiers in the world. She started competing in the Junior World Championships in 2015 where she reached an impressive 4th place and most recently, she made 9th place in the 2015 World Cup in Aspen, USA. After another difficult injury in 2016, and a long rehabilitation, Charlotte is eager to get back her top-level in FIS WorldCup. chablecharlotte charlottechable Ladies Horological Smartwatch (ref. AL-281BS3V6) JIM DE PAOLI Born and raised in Geneva in Switzerland. After completing his studies, Jim consecrated the great Majority of his time practicing his sport, hundreds of hours of training spent in sports halls or ice rinks. After 9 years of racing, He participates in over 35 races and he's more than motivated to repeat for a new season. The Ice Cross Downhill sport made its debut in January 2001 in Stockholm. With their ice skates, the athletes hurtle down the icy slopes, strewn with obstacles of all kinds, with the only goal being to be first on the finish line. This sport is a symbiosis between Skicross and ice skating. The races are held throughout Europe and North America. jimdepaoli YANN SCUSSEL Yann Scussel, is born in 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland. He quickly became passionate about sports, including water sports such as swimming and water polo, which he practiced at a high level for years. Water has become its element; even some days he is more under water than outside! With his parents, he also had the chance to travel, which gave him the taste of adventure, exploration and nature. Diving is a way for Yann to explore incredible sites and meet fascinating animals. In 2018, he participated to a project in Fiji Islands within the Shark Conservation Project (SCP). Despite his young age, this young adventurer of modern times aims to be able to explore the world and carry out projects that have never been attempted before. Inspired by adventurers like Mike Horn, Yann trains hard every day to prepare for his future "extreme" projects and realize his dreams. yann_scussel ROBIN BUFFET Robin Buffet alias Bobby (his nickname) was born in Annecy. The young alpine skier of La Clusaz won the 2016 European Slalom Cup. Robin is not one of those born in a large family of competitors. He led his way alone, by perseverance and hard work. Passionate about winter sports and speed, he is also extremely calm and thoughtful. buffetrobin @buffetrobin robinbuffet JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC CHAPUIS Born in the Belleville Valley in 1989, this young man has Ski Cross in his blood. This is the story of a skier, born into a Franco-Swiss family with a strong background in skiing. "As a child, he was already a leader with a strong character. He was sensitive, gifted and a bit cheeky at school" according to one of his trainers from Val Thorens. "We knew he would become a great skier, although at the time we thought it would be in Alpine skiing". In 2009, at the age of 20, he switched from Alpine skiing to Ski Cross, and in no time was a convert. World Ski Cross Champion 2014, Gold medalist at the Olympic Games in Sotchi, Jean-Fred finished 2nd in the World Ski Cross Championship last winter, and he is ready this winter to go back to his Top-leader position. ChapuisJF jfchapuis Startimer Pilot Quartz Big Date Chronograph (ref. AL-372BMLY4FBS6) AURÉLIEN DUCROZ Skier/Skipper, Aurélien makes us discover his passion and shares with us the thrill of the extreme through his challenge Latitude Neige/Longitude Mer. Originally from Chamonix, Aurélien is a 35 years old, father of two children and a descendant of a family of mountain guides, a ski instructor, so needless to say that the mountain and the ski are part of his genetic inheritance! His passion for freeride skiing led him to the top: two world championship titles and four victories at Verbier's Xtreme, the iconic side of the World Freeride Championship final. For the past two years, he has produced Cham'lines, a web series displaying freeride lines in the Chamonix Valley. He also travels the earth and films extraordinary places, mixing his two passions! On top of that, Aurelien is a great ocean race sailor. He took part to Transat Jacques Vabre 2017 on an IMOCA monohul and competed 3 times on Tour de France a la Voile winning a 4th place overall in 2016. Aurelien-Ducroz @aurelienducroz aurelienducroz Seastrong Horological Smartwatch (ref. AL-282LBO4V6) TRISTAN DUGERDIL Coming from Morzine-France, Tristan started the sport by practicing ice hockey and skiing in competition until the age of 14. Then, he devoted himself entirely to the Hockey by evolving in the Junior Team of Geneva-Servette. He practises in parallel various sports such as mountain biking, freestyle skiing, skateboarding... His Ice Cross Downhill career began in Lausanne in 2013 after achieving the best time in Swiss national selections. He is now part of the World Top 5 of the discipline. With a degree in Mechanical Design in his pocket, he now devotes himself entirely to his athletic career to win in the world's skating elite. TristanDugerdil ENAK GAVAGGIO French alpine skier, skier-cross, snowboarder, free rider, base jumper and surfer, Enak Gavaggio simply loves anything which enables him to slide. Born on May 4th, 1976, Enak is known and appreciated both by his peers - for his carrier results and strong personality - and by the younger generation for his Rancho WebShow series. Nowadays a famous and influent face in the French Mountain Industry, he is the only one who is so admired by any kind of winter sports athlete. Enak started to ski at 8 years old and his career's hit list could make most people blush: 7 skier-cross medals at the X-Games, 5x skier-cross WORLD CUP WINNER, 5 medals at the World Championship, and a 4th and 5th place at the Freeride World Tour Championship. His professional career as athlete will end in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Since 2014, Enak has played the well-known role of "Rancho", a staggered vintage character in a skiing universe themed web show. enakgavaggio NELLY MOENNE-LOCCOZ Nelly was introduced to the world of alpine skiing at the age of 3, by her father, a ski instructor. Since her very first races in 2000, her parents have been very supportive throughout her career. She quickly grew a passion for snowboarding and swapped her skis for a snowboard. In research of new sensations, snowboard cross became her official discipline. Nelly practices her sport rigorously within the French National Team, in an atmosphere she calls "funformance", in her words, a happy medium between fun and performance. It's not surprising once you get to know her outgoing personality. She is part of today's top world female elite of snowboard cross. As an engaged and dedicated personality, Nelly is committed to reaching podiums. Her innate physical and tactical qualities quickly propelled her to the top of the rankings. Three times Olympic Games participant in 2010, 2014 and 2018, vice-world Champion in 2011 and 2015, Nelly made a sensational season in 2015 by claiming the famous crystal globe in her discipline. Last 2017-2018 season, Nelly finished #3 in the FIS Worldcup Snowboardcross ranking. moenneloccoz.nelly @NMoenneloccoz nellymoenneloccoz VICTOR MUFFAT-JEANDET Victor Muffat-Jeandet (born 5 March 1989) is a French World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie in France, Muffat-Jeandet made his World Cup debut in February 2009 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. He achieved his first podium in 2015, a runner-up finish in a super combined at Wengen, Switzerland. He also participated at the 2013 World Championships and 2015 World Championships. 2018 offered him his first participation to the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, where he earned his first medal, a Bronze, in the Alpine combined. He also made his first place in World Cup's combined in Wengen. Rigorous, perseverant and perfectionist, he likes the work well done. 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Born in Cles in Italy, Luca joined in 2008 the team of Torino and won the gold medal at the Italian Junior Championship, which enabled him to join the Italian National Team. In 2009, he graduated from Sportoberschule Malles and became part of the Fiamme Gialle (the sport section of the Italian force). At this time, he could turn his passion into a real job. In 2011, he started his first world cup race. Three years later, Luca participated to the Olympic Games in Sochi and scored the best Italian result with its eleventh place. Luca De Aliprandini is a great skier that trains a lot to be part of the best world skier in the world. luca.dealiprandini @dealiprandini lucadealiprandini MIKE GOULIAN Aviation has been part of Alpina's DNA for almost a century. In 1921, Alpina became a renowned supplier of time instruments for military pilots and air forces so it's only natural to welcome Michael Goulian as part of the Alpina aviation family. 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Method Acting 101 There was a time when "committed" actors swore by method acting for really nailing roles, really living in the skin of the characters they portrayed. It's a technique wherein the actor aims for total emotional identification with the part, and once they're in the zone, they don't leave it. They don't break character when the director yells cut. If the character is angry and volatile, the actor will be angry and volatile for the whole 4 months. If the character is needy and vulnerable, then so will be the actor. You can understand why it's difficult to work with such an actor - it must feel like working with a toddler, one who doesn't take naps and won't be sent to time out. Lots of actors have taking method acting so far it makes my eyes roll around in their sockets but it was Jared Leto's method approach to the Joker in Suicide Squad that led Angelica Jade Bastien of The Atlantic to declare "Method acting is over." Thanks to its overuse in Oscar-baity screeners by those actively seeking accolades, the method has lost its appeal, but Leto's over-the-top zeal revealed the "technique" as more marketing tool than anything else and the prestige is all but gone. Jared Leto sent his fellow costars screwy gifts of used condoms, dead pigs, and live rats, apparently because he felt that's the kind of thoughtful gesture the Joker would make, or at least that it would play well as an anecdote on Jimmy Kimmell. He also watched footage of brutal crimes online because apparently pretending to be a bad person isn't enough, one must actually become reprehensible. Going "method" is really just a new way for an actor to show off; it makes the creation of a character more visible and signals to the Academy "I'd like my Oscar now." This identity branding is indulged by Hollywood but often divisive if not downright disruptive on set. Practiced by Hollywood heavyweights like Paul Newman, Montgomery Clift, Dustin Hoffman, and Jack Nicholson, method acting was revolutionary in its time, and idealized in the performances of Marlon Brando. James Franco recently wrote that "Brando's performances revolutionized American acting precisely because he didn't seem to be 'performing,' in the sense that he wasn't putting something on as much as he was being." But Brando never took it to the extremes that we see today. Leonardo DiCaprio has used method acting to rebrand himself as a "serious actor" after being mistaken for a hearthrob in his early career. His recent Oscar campaign for The Revenant emphasized the grueling ordeal he went through, including eating bison liver (despite being vegetarian), risking hypothermia by striding into freezing rivers, and sleeping in an animal carcass. But doesn't this sound more like an episode of Fear Factor? Isn't acting really about pretending? The Revenant isn't a documentary about frontiersmen. I'm sure it would have played just as well had he shot the scene in a lukewarm stream instead. CGI in some breath clouds and it's all the same to me. Christian Bale seems to be a practitioner of the method in order to add machismo to his work. "I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. This is just not something to be quite as proud of as many people would have you believe." So Bale counters this by really losing himself in a role. For The Machinist, he lost 70lbs and got down to a very unhealthy 120 (on a 6′ frame), and then turned around and gained 100lbs to play Batman just 4 months later.He went on to stay in Bruce Wayne's American accent not just for the duration of the filming, but for all the press as well. Shia LaBeouf went 4 months without washing on the set of Fury, where he played a soldier in the trenches (this got him banished to a bed and breakfast far away from the hotel where the other cast and crew stayed). He also cut his own face with a knife, and pulled his own tooth. His co-star, Brad Pitt, non-Method, injects roles with his natural charisma rather than stunts and overly-studied contrivances. Whose performances do you prefer? Daniel Day-Lewis may be the most over-the-top Method actor of his time. While filming My Left Foot, he refused to get out of his wheelchair, forcing crew to carry him around, and spoon-feed him dinner. He lived in the wild while shooting Last of the Mohicans, and ate only what he shot himself. He insisted that everyone address him as "Mr President" on the set of Lincoln, and forbade people from speaking to him unless it was in language (and accents) from the time period. He refused a winter coat on the set of Gangs of New York, and when he inevitably caught pneumonia, he refused "modern day" medical treatment. DeNiro got a real cab license while filming Taxi Driver, and picked up fares around NYC between takes. Pacino made an actual citizen's arrest while filming Serpico. Adrien Brody starved himself and sold his apartment to feel "lost" while playing a Holocaust survivor in The Pianist. If you're getting the feeling that this so-called Method is about ego more than art, you're not alone. And I wonder if you're seeing the other pattern here...that all the names on this list are men. There are plenty of Method actresses as well: Marilyn Monroe, Ellyn Burstyne, and Jane Fonda all studied the technique. They just never adopted the crazy stunts. Gena Rowlands is probably the best Method actor you'll ever come across, but she does it without resorting to tricks. Sadly, when we hear a woman is "immersed" in a role, it almost always means she's altered her physical appearance. So it's pretty obvious that not only is method acting obnoxious and ridiculous, it's also pretty sexist. But what else is new? This entry was posted in Behind the Scenes and tagged Christian Bale, Daniel Day-Lewis, discussion, jared leto, Leonardo DiCaprio, Shia LaBeouf on January 6, 2017 by Jay. ← Bringing Movies to Life in a Whole New Way Hidden Figures → 22 thoughts on "Method Acting 101" gumusdis.com January 6, 2017 at 1:14 pm Wonderful post and movies I like especially fury and suicide squad. Widdershins January 6, 2017 at 1:48 pm Another name for narcissistic wanking! Henry Chamberlain January 6, 2017 at 3:09 pm I did not know that Shia pulled out one of his teeth for the sake of his role in a movie. Who is going to notice or care about such demented dedication? Between Shia and Brad Pitt, I might not choose either one. I would definitely go with Paul Dano. Whatever he's doing, it's working. BroadBlogs January 6, 2017 at 5:11 pm Wow! Christian Bale's method acting is freaking scary. A little sanity, please! Liz A. January 6, 2017 at 7:30 pm I get the trying of things to get a feel for the role, but then there is going too far. Moderation is key. But some people are going to go to extremes no matter what. ninvoid99 January 6, 2017 at 8:05 pm Method acting used to be cool as I like it when people Christian Bale and Charlize Theron would do something to create something that is real whereas Jared Leto just makes it uncool. It is just now a method for vanity where it's not about the performance but rather "look at me, I can act" bullshit. Christopher January 6, 2017 at 10:02 pm Even for some of the earlier actors method acting seems unnecessary. Coppola did screen tests with Brando for The Godfather and Brando slipped into the character of Don Corleone with just a few moments preparation and shoe polish in his hair. Robert DeNiro did incredible preparation for Bloody Mama-he even corrected the speech coach's accent-but had trouble in a scene where he drives a car because he didn't know how to drive. And then there's the story I've heard that on the set of Marathon Man Dustin Hoffman said "This role is killing me" and Olivier said, "Why don't you try acting?" And I just saw the picture of Olivier...never mind! fragglerocking January 7, 2017 at 6:44 am It all sounds a bit bonkers and unnecessary. Must be really annoying for the proper actors in the movie. Brad Pitt acted his socks off in Fury I thought. Shia The Buf didn't impress me as much. Brittani January 7, 2017 at 7:59 am Great post. Method acting it mostly ridiculous to me, but there are some cases where it works. Robert DeNiro driving a cab? Fine. Living alone for a month to feel isolated, sure. But when your method acting starts affecting other people, that's when you're going overboard. I remember during the Lincoln press tour, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was talking about how Daniel Day-Lewis wrote him a letter as Abraham Lincoln and had studied his handwriting, I thought the interviewer was going to burst out laughing. If I were an actor or crew member, I'm not sure I'd want to work with someone who was going to be full on method to the point of never leaving character and possibly disrupting others. Jay Post author January 7, 2017 at 5:01 pm Yes, I heard Sally Field saying he would always text her in character, and demand she reply back in proper old English, and he even signed the texts "A" - but hello - texting wasn't exactly period!!! It's idiotic. Harlon January 7, 2017 at 2:06 pm I always thought that it was a great quote contrasting two great actors when Sir Lawrence Olivier said to Dusting Hoffman during the filming of The Marathon Man - 'Why don't you try acting dear boy?' So I really enjoyed this posting about acting styles and I think you also made a very astute observation that there is a double standing for Method Acting between men and women, over time for women it really has evolved more so into their appearance. Even if you may be assholes, it's nice to read stuff from someone who gets into movies as much as I do. If I worked behind the snack counter, I'd supersize your combo snack and not charge you extra. 🙂 Harlon That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all week!!! J. January 7, 2017 at 4:12 pm Wait, Leto and method acting for the part of Joker? How did I miss that? Anyhoo, I think my favourite method acting story is Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. For those not familiar with that one, apparently he spent a year walking around as Jim, then folks had to refer to him as Jim, and it's said that after filming had wrapped up he was still in Jim mode. Apparently he needed therapy! I don't know how true it is, or how much of it has been exaggerated, but that's a whole different level of method acting, eh? Yeah, I read a lot about him doing that role. As a counsellor I suppose I get uncomfortable thinking about anyone getting that obsessive about it. Seems unhealthy, and I think you need better boundaries not just between work and not work, but between self and not self! Hazzieandsof January 9, 2017 at 1:17 pm I feel a bit better knowing I'm not the only one that thought some method acting was a bit over the top but didn't even stop to think about it being mostly men. Thanks for the perspective. Jay Post author January 23, 2017 at 1:37 pm It's just gotten ridiculous and there's so much bravado in it. Lloyd Marken January 10, 2017 at 10:26 am I'm all for method acting to a point. De Niro boxed for Raging Bull, Bale did great work in Rescue Dawn and looks the part in The Fighter and American Hustle. I get his motivation and revel in the physical transformations. Day Lewis too I'm a huge fan of and think the work pays off on screen. I think it would be nice if more actresses were recognised for method acting. Naomi Watts for example worked with a nurse for Eastern Promises but that tends to get forgotten next to what Viggo Mortensen did in the same film. I think a lot of it as passed off as routine research or training but actually I think more preparation work done by actresses should get recognised. Gene Hackman once said to young actors 'Whatever you need to get into that moment you do." Old hands like James Garner were of the school of thought 'show up, know your lines and hit your mark' show clearly that acting does not need to be laborious to be great and natural. Yet short of annoying others or endangering yourself I'm all for it if it works for you. For example Day Lewis refusing modern medical treatment is stupid. Not leaving his wheelchair during the shooting of My Left Foot while annoying I can see the benefit of. Just another opinion brought to you nobody in particular. 🙂 Jeff the Chef January 12, 2017 at 10:18 pm All of this leaves me wonder how Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal prepared for Brokeback. Ashley Lily Scarlett January 24, 2017 at 2:07 am I think this is interesting. It seems to me to be a matter of degrees. Some immersion would be research and presumably the acting would be better for it, but walking around 'being' The Joker? I'm glad I wasn't there! littlefish4 February 28, 2017 at 7:35 pm Very interesting read 🙂 Pingback: Jim & Andy | ASSHOLES WATCHING MOVIES

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Leftists Fear Some Success Stories, Cheer Others In Opinion on September 25, 2012 at 10:08 am The commentary from the left about Mitt Romney's financial success and tax rate causes me to wonder: How do they really feel about success in America? Dear Leftists, Is Mitt Romney's version of success acceptable to you? After a comfortable childhood and an Ivy League education, he spent 25 years building wealth for himself, his family, and his partners. He supported and created business enterprises that employ thousands, enabling them to buy food, clothes, housing, medicine and education for their families. He has given exceedingly generously to the Mormon Church and other charities. He is 65, wealthy and running for the presidency at a point in his life at which most men would prefer to coast to the finish line. Or, is Barack Obama's life a better version of successful? He and Michelle, we're told, paid off their student loans just 8 years ago, so he was not financially successful before he made his way up the political ladder. Now he's the President of the United States, after serving in the Illinois state senate and briefly in the US Senate. He has made millions from two autobiographical memoirs (yes, two, already - he turned 51 this summer) and assuredly will make millions more when he is relieved of his duty as commander in chief of the US military. Or, let's take Bill and Hillary Clinton; maybe you admire their version of success. Their combined resumé contains Ivy League law school degrees, a law firm partnership (after her husband was elected governor), a stint as a congressional committee lawyer, three terms as the governor of Arkansas, two as the President of the United States, one and 1/2 terms in the US Senate, the title First Lady of the US, and four years as Secretary of State. Sometime between her 'First Lady-ship" and her service in the Senate, she made millions from a book deal. After his presidency, Mr. Clinton cashed-in big with book deals and on the lecture circuit. The couple are in their mid-60s and reportedly has a net worth in excess of $100,000,000, and they can't seem to grow tired of being political celebrities. Or, maybe your version of success is Sheldon Adelson's humble beginnings followed by enormous self-made wealth. Mr. Adelson was born in 1933 to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants who lived in a Boston suburb. After selling toiletries, he opened a charter bus business. Later he created billions of dollars of wealth for himself and numerous investment partners in the convention and casino businesses that employ thousands of people who support their families with the paychecks they earn from those businesses. He's 78 years old, has donated 100s of millions of dollars to various charities and recently has spent some of his fortune to express his views about certain political matters, i.e. to exercise his First Amendment rights. So, we have a couple of guys who made loads of money in the private sector contrasted with a couple other guys (+ one wife each) who, we're told, decided to forego big-money careers and pursue a life of "public service" (a.k.a. exercising power over other people's lives) and then, upon reaching the pinnacle of that version of career success, turn their rolodex and access to power into a money machine that lines their pockets while they produce nothing but noise and hot air. The American left praises and reveres the public-service version of success. They treat the other version with suspicion and disdain and constantly insinuate that, where there's private success, there's likely much malfeasant activity. Want to know how a person's mind works? Notice what they fear and what they cheer. What do you fear/cheer? I say "Three Cheers for what the Leftists' Fear!" And, Cheers! " Before The movie of the year September 24, 2012 AfterDon't Apologize for ME Anymore, Mr. Obama September 26, 2012 "

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Schedule (NEW) Related Bios Chris Bartley Paul Bennett Mike Callahan Brian Chabot Michael DeSavage Rusty Eggen Cherise Galasso Whitney Goldstein Pam Griffin Dana Harmon Shawn McAvey Ann McCarron Meredith Merchant Lisa Moreau Larry Noble Greg Poole Jason Steele Wendy Walsh Danielle Parenteau Ken Lacey Leisha Alcia Steph Riley-Schafer Email: Year: Sixth Season Previous College: Temple '07 2016 NSCAA Regional Coaching Staff of the Year | 2016 NEWMAC Coach of the Year Steph Riley-Schafer, who touts five winning seasons and NEWMAC tournament appearances, brings a 55-28-14 (.639) record into her sixth season at the helm of the Engineers in 2018. Kristen McCrea repeated as an All-NEWMAC first teamer and United Soccer Coaches All-Region selection to go along with a CoSIDA Academic All-District nod in 2017. Gabi Hoops, Sophie Gomarlo and Karina Larson were also recognized by the conference head coaches. As a team, Women's Soccer boasted a program-record 13 NEWMAC Academic All-Conference honorees. The 2016 season featured a number of program firsts culminating with their first NEWMAC Championship, NCAA tournament appearance and NSCAA Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honors. The 16-2-3 club boasted the best single-season winning percentage (.833) while being the first to host any round of the conference tournament, as well as the semifinals and finals following a 8-1-1 conference schedule. The Engineers traveled to Geneva, NY and played a double overtime draw with Trinity (CT), who advanced via penalty kicks. Individually, Gabi Hoops was named as the first-ever NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Year while Kristen McCrea was tabbed as the second in program history to garner NEWMAC Rookie of the Year honors and Schafer was selected by her peers as the NEWMAC Coach of the Year. Susannah Gray joined McCrea on the All-NEWMAC first team. The 2015 season (11-5-3, 5-3-2 NEWMAC) was successful on the field and off with Emily Doherty racking up a number of All-America honors, including a pair of academic accolades from CoSIDA and the NSCAA. The team also bested Springfield for the first time in program history. Doherty was an All-NEWMAC first teamer while Gray was a second team honoree for the second consective year. In 2014, the team went 8-7-4 overall, with a conference record of 5-2-3 making it to the NEWMAC quarterfinals for the second year in-a-row. With the success of 2014 campaign the team posted back-to-back winning seasons for only the third time in program history and first time since 2003-04. In her first season at WPI, Schafer posted a 10-7-2 record (4-5-1 NEWMAC) which qualified the Crimson and Gray for the NEWMAC tournament for the first time since 2010. Megan Forti was the lone WPI All-NEWMAC representative with a first team nod. Prior to Riley-Schafer coming to WPI she was the top assistant at Division I Wagner College. She was heavily involved with the Seahawks in designing and implementing practice and training sessions as well as in recruiting. Riley-Schafer also took an active role in academic monitoring, scheduling, team travel and fundraising. Prior to her time at Wagner, she spent three seasons as an assistant at Curry College where she helped the Colonels reached the CCC Tournament in 2008 and 2010. Riley-Schafer also spent five seasons with the Boston Breakers serving as the Senior Team Coordinator, Equipment Manager, Team Manager and Director of Operations over those five seasons. Among her many duties, Riley-Schafer managed player personnel, coordinated practice and game schedules, organized team travel and oversaw the host family program that places 20+ athletes in rent-free housing. A native of the Philadelphia area, Riley-Schafer played collegiately at Division I Temple University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in sports and recreation management with a minor in business. In 2013, she graduated from Wagner with her master's in secondary education with a social studies concentration.

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DREAM CHILDREN, THE October 27, 2013 Renee Pimentel A haunting and provocative film about Steven Evans, a troubled TV personality who struggles to find meaning in his life in the face of the superficial world he has created. When his long-time partner hurls him headfirst into fatherhood, Steven's initial reluctance is gradually replaced with love, as he discovers in his new family a bond stronger than any he has experienced before. But the return of an unexpected visitor triggers off a series of events that thrusts Steven and his family into a vortex of loneliness, self-destruction and grief.

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Reinforcing Nuclear-Test-Ban With Security Council Resolution Viewpoint by Shervin Taheran* This article appears in cooperation with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), as part of the initiative 'Youth for CTBTO'. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the CTBTO. - Editor WASHINGTON. D.C. (IDN) - Following mass protests against Soviet nuclear weapons testing in Kazakhstan on August 29, 1991, the Kremlin was forced to close the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, where over 460 nuclear tests were conducted, and declare a moratorium on nuclear testing. This, in turn, opened the way for the United States to halt testing and for negotiations on a global, verifiable Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which were concluded in 1996. August 29 is now recognized by the United Nations as the International Day against Nuclear Tests to raise awareness about the devastating health and environmental effects of the over 2,000 nuclear tests since 1945, the value of a global ban on all nuclear testing to curb the development of new types of nuclear weapons, and the pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons. Two decades later, nuclear testing is taboo. Only one state, North Korea still threatens to conduct nuclear tests. But the door to the possible resumption of nuclear testing remains open because the CTBT still has not entered into force. Although 183 states have signed and 164 have ratified the treaty, there are still eight key states that need to ratify it to trigger the treaty's formal entry into force. The longer the CTBT's entry into force is delayed, the higher the odds that one or more states will try to conduct a nuclear test explosion, openly or in secret, which would trigger a new round of nuclear testing and arms racing. At the biannual Article XIV Conference of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in 2015 to encourage the early entry into force of the CTBT, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister and Co-Chair of the conference Erlan Idrissov declared that "business as usual" would not do. He emphasized that after nearly 20 years of this treaty, creative and "more aggressive" approaches were necessary to stimulate action by key holdout states - China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, and the United States. Now, ahead of the September UN Security Council meeting and the 20th anniversary of the opening for signature of the CTBT on September 24, we have that opportunity. The United States and other UN Security Council member states are considering a resolution designed to reinforce the global norm against nuclear testing and stigmatize those who continue to test, as well as call for continued support for the International Monitoring System, which is designed to detect and deter prohibited nuclear test explosions. Also under consideration is a statement from the permanent five (P5) members - China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States - that would declare that a nuclear test explosion would defeat "the object and purpose" of the CTBT. Contrary to some reports, neither the resolution nor the statement will impose any new legally binding limitation. All signatories to the CTBT are bound by customary international law not to take actions that would defeat the purpose of the treaty, which is clearly to bar nuclear test explosions. Nevertheless, this high-level reaffirmation of national commitments in support of the CTBT and the global norm against nuclear testing is an important insurance policy against renewed nuclear testing pending the formal entry into force of the CTBT. By reaffirming the value of the CTBT and support for the de facto global nuclear test moratorium, the resolution can also provide a strong impetus for the eight holdout states to ratify and accelerate entry into force. In the Middle East, for example, ratification of the CTBT by Egypt, Israel, and Iran would build confidence in a troubled region and contribute to the realization of the elusive goal of a Middle East zone free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. India and Pakistan, each of which have declared unilateral national nuclear testing moratoria, should also welcome the resolution and actively consider joining the international nuclear nonproliferation mainstream by signing the CTBT. Russia, which has signed and ratified the treaty, should welcome the resolution and a P5 joint statement against nuclear testing as a reaffirmation of their position and a lever on moving the United States and China to finally ratify the treaty. Finally, the resolution, without naming North Korea's specifically, would reinforce the international community's push for Pyongyang to end to nuclear testing, which could allow it to perfect smaller nuclear warheads that could be delivered on ballistic missiles. The resolution will also help bolster support for the maintenance and operation of the CTBTO's global network of more than 300 monitoring stations, which verifies compliance with the treaty. Today, the International Monitoring System is over 90% complete. The CTBT has successfully carried out two on-site inspection exercises to demonstrate one of the most invasive verification measures allowed by the CTBT, which will only be available when the treaty enters into force. However, there is still much more to be done to improve the test monitoring system. For example, Iran has yet to begin sending its data from its International monitoring stations to CTBTO's International Data Centre. This action would be a key confidence-building step towards its eventual ratification of the treaty. Pakistan and India could begin building their monitoring stations so they can begin to provide data useful to detect and deter nuclear tests. The UN Security Council resolution could also guard against the possibility of erosion of support for the CTBTO, which would adversely affect the maintenance and effective operation of the IMS and IDC. Dr. Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the CTBTO, has stated numerous times that he fears states will suffer from "treaty fatigue". "My issue is the risk that the longer the entry into force of the CTBT is, the more risk we have with regard to treaty fatigue that could lead to people saying, 'Why are we investing in something if we don't know when the treaty will come into force?' That's the biggest risk for this treaty," he said in an IDN-INPS interview in February. The proposed UN Security Council resolution on nuclear testing and the test ban is a win-win for the international community. It will help refocus international attention on the value of the CTBT, the importance of the de facto test moratorium, and recommit states to continue to support the CTBTO's international monitoring regime. *Shervin Taheran is the Program Associate with the Washington-based Arms Control Association and Project for the CTBT () and is also a member of the CTBTO Youth Initiative. 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Christa Hodapp By Leah Bayens Photos by Mark Cornelison Philosophy doctoral candidate Christa Hodapp is sorting out an issue most people superficially acknowledge before returning to business as usual: humans are animals. "The traditional, neo-Lockean claim is that you're fundamentally a person, which is a rational, thinking being, and you happen to be related to an animal in some way," Hodapp explained. Thus, many people imagine that personhood separates us from the likes of dogs, horses, and ants. In the process, they also tend to place humans on a higher rung than our nonhuman counterparts. Hodapp, however, refuses to split nature and mind in this way. Instead, her dissertation, Personal Identity and the Biological View of Human Persistence, foregrounds the notion that human beings are not simply related to animals; they are, in fact, "not separate from the animal in any way. They are identical to that animal," she has argued. As such, our chief classification is human animal. This biological viewpoint is difficult for some people to swallow. "Even to place human beings on the spectrum in a very obvious way [with animals] tends to be disturbing to people." She notes that some critics find the human animal identification "degrading because they claim that this places humans on the same ontological level as a cockroach." Far from claiming humans and roaches are of exactly the same ilk, Hodapp nonetheless underscores the importance of understanding ourselves as animals first. To do otherwise is to miss an opportunity to take full account of the properties with which we can talk about human beings. Given the thorny nature of her project, it is clear Hodapp does not shy away from controversy easily. Her bachelor's and master's degrees in Gender and Women's Studies prepared her for just this sort of prickly conversation. In fact, the identity issues she wrangled with while researching performative and social aspects of gender at Denison University as an undergraduate and at Florida Atlantic University as a graduate student led her to the deeper, ontological status problems she currently theorizes. First developing an expertise in the nature and reality of gender, Hodapp ultimately began to see these qualities as "a concern with a philosophy of human nature." She became interested in "dealing, in a very rigorous way, with the fundamental, ontological status of human beings." Now, after having earned a second master's degree before embarking on her doctorate in philosophy at UK, she strives to get at the root of how we theorize being human animals. In the process, Hodapp has determined an especially controversial application of her theory, one that deals with knotty bioethical issues like the status of fetuses and of people in persistent vegetative states. She compellingly moves from the animal concept to stage of life issues. First, she posits that person is a phase in the life of the human animal, just as athlete, infant, or student are terms we use to describe ourselves at certain stages. A human animal doesn't need to be identified as a person at all times because we do not always have the capacity for cognition and rational thought throughout our lives. In this way, person "denotes some kind of ability of a human animal that it has at a specific time" rather than the defining ontological category. By the same token, we can classify ourselves as being in multiple phases simultaneously, such as person, student, athlete, a status strand Hodapp currently claims by virtue of her roles as philosophy scholar and rugby player. In phases that do not involve the qualities we associate with personhood (i.e., cognition), we have the freedom to talk about the human being in more exact ways. Thus, Hodapp's work holds important implications for "the ways we talk about issues in biomedical ethics and applied ethics, particularly in terms of the fetus problem and persistent vegetative state issues." Though she is not establishing a system of ethics with Personal Identity and the Biological View, Hodapp is beginning to provide a language with which biomedical ethicists can name "the entity we're dealing with in a metaphysically clear way." These kinds of heady concepts constitute the bulk of Hodapp's research as well as teaching: "In ethics classes, I tell students, 'You should be worried about [these issues] because not everyone has the same religious, cultural or social backgrounds as you, so we need to find reasons why people should be moral - above and beyond social factions.'" In an effort to pique students' interest in philosophical conundrums, she encourages them to figure out how concepts apply to a range of issues. Classes often start from pop culture references and proceed to parallel instances involving deeper race, class, gender, and spiritual matters. In lower division courses, Hodapp aims to show students that "philosophical issues are the issues they really do care about; they just haven't conceptualized them in that way." When they "start assessing their everyday experiences from a different viewpoint," Hodapp feels she's doing her best work in the classroom. Some of her best scholarly work is the result of relationships she developed with peers and professors in graduate courses. "When I first got here, I didn't have a philosophy background, and there have been some really key older graduate students who took very good care of me," she said. Likewise, philosophy professors proved available, helpful and interested in her work, particularly her dissertation advisor, Brandon Look. "I can send him work whenever I have it, and he never is opposed to reading it, meeting with me, giving me notes, and being really constructively critical." Hodapp recognizes Look and committee member Anita Superson as having been instrumental in strengthening her capacity as a job candidate and philosopher, making sure that she does more than just finish a dissertation and graduate. Like her mentors, Hodapp wants to change the terms of how we conduct "business as usual." She's starting by encouraging each of us to embrace our membership in the Kingdom Animalia. In so doing, we begin "reordering the bias we have toward identifying ourselves as animals," and ultimately, we "clarify the status of beings." The implications of Hodapp's proposal are far reaching. From biomedical ethics to gender roles to our essential identities, her project expands the ways we talk and think about being human.

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Archive for the 'Cedric Poline' Category Pioline Wins in London's Albert Hall. Categories: Cedric Poline and Pete Sampras Tags: Blackrock Masters, Poline Cedric Pioline came from a match point down today to overhaul Greg Rusedski and win his first ever BlackRock Masters Tennis trophy. A packed Royal Albert Hall crowd watched enthralled as the Frenchman took three Tie-Break sets to overcome his dogged opponent in 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 11-9 (Champions' Tie Break) in one hour and 45 minutes. In a match that saw Pioline and Rusedski hit a total of 22 aces, there was little to choose between the two men in the first set. In the end the decisive moment came when Pioline double-faulted in the Tie-Break to hand the set to his opponent. The second set was equally nail-biting as both men held serve with ease to take it to a second Tie-Break. This time though the momentum swung quickly the way of the Frenchman, as Rusedski double-faulted at 2-2 offering Pioline a mini-break and the chance to level up the match at one set all. It was a chance that he duly took and in the deciding Champions' Tie-Break it was the Frenchman who played the more aggressive tennis when it mattered. Facing a match point at 8-9 down, the 39-year-old Pioline aced his way out of trouble and went on to take the following two points, clinching the match with a scorching forehand winner down the line. "I took my chances and it worked," said Pioline. "It was really close and it came down to a few points and I think at the end maybe I just returned a little bit better than him." Rusedski was disappointed not to convert his chances today, but admitted he had lost to the better player on the day. "I was just one or two points short," he said. "I had one match point in the second set tie break but Cedric played great and I think he's a deserving champion. For Pioline, today's win was the perfect way to round off one of his favourite tournaments of the year. He reached the final by beating Pete Sampras for the first time in his career, a taste of revenge for his loss in the Wimbledon final some years ago.

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The BalikBayani Blog Weaving stories, building identity Bernard Badion: Sharing Experiences Through Film Posted by Heidi Carreon on July 18, 2016 July 18, 2016 There is a lot of talk these days about diversity in Hollywood and the rest of the film industry. The hashtag #oscarssowhite, for instance, encouraged many fans and industry workers to discuss the lack of diversity in film. Filipino-American filmmaker Bernard Badion recognizes this and "can pretty much count" the other Filipinos who worked around Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. But he also adds that being in the film industry is difficult for everyone trying to get their foot in the door. "This is a hard business and if you want to make a living doing it, no matter what it's going to be hard," Bernard says. Because of this, he advises all people aspiring to the film industry to work hard at their craft, whether it be writing, directing or filming. "If you keep going, you'll get better...I know I'm not Aaron Sorkin, but if I keep writing it's kind of impossible to not be good at it." But before he was working on films in Los Angeles, Bernard was tricking his elementary school teachers in Sunnyvale. The first in his family to be American-born, Bernard recalls that he was "spitting Tagalog like crazy" when he was younger, but he could speak English fluently. Yet, Bernard pretended to not know English at six years old as a joke to his teachers. They placed him in a program at his school that taught English to students who spoke another language at home. "They notified my mother and she told me, 'They think you don't know what you're talking about,'" Bernard laughs a little in our phone conversation, "After a year they figured out that I could actually speak English." Even so, Bernard stayed in the program until sixth grade because he was able to get out of class for an hour. Being a "English Second Language" student, however, had lasting effects. Bernard's mother kept him from speaking Tagalog at home so he would be a better English speaker. As such, his Tagalog is at an elementary level. "I feel like I'm an idiot when I'm in the Philippines...my cousins speak to me in English," Bernard says, "But Tagalog is still in my head somewhere, just as long as I have someone to speak to me." Even though Bernard lost his fluency in Tagalog, he kept his connection to Filipino culture through Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Filipino club during his undergrad years. His interest in technology and background in high school broadcast journalism led him to making videos for the club to promote their culture night show. Producing promotional videos encouraged Bernard to make films with his friends in the Filipino club. He made a rom-com film his senior year, and there was large crowd at its screening; it was even covered by the student newspaper. The confidence Bernard gained from the screening and the support from his friends in the Filipino club encouraged him to pursue a career in film. "I didn't know who those people where [at the screening]. But I was in the [Filipino] club and I made things and the response was positive." Bernard says, "And it was really where it started." Bernard worked in various shows and projects in the industry, and got his Master's of Fine Arts in Writing and Producing Television from Loyola Marymount University. Two of his more recent films, I Won't Miss You and Sounds We Have No Letters For, have been screened around California and feature Filipino leads. Although Bernard doesn't nessecarily write to cast Filipino actors, "if it fits, I'll go after them." "If I don't cast them, it's kind of like, who will?" Bernard asks. Even though it's a tough industry, Bernard doesn't see himself doing anything else, and believes that film can do much for the Fil-Am community. Good films, according to Bernard, can affect even viewers who are having a bad day. Through that same vein, films can be used to empower viewers or to help them learn about other cultures. It's for this reason he tries to connect with and support other Fil-Ams working in film, because many Fil-Ams opt for high-salary jobs. Bernard stays in the industry "because I'm not trained for anything else." But he also creates films because he hopes that they would resonate with people, especially Fil-Ams. "It's good to have more stories from people who look like you and have the same experiences as you," Bernard says, "I feel like it's important." If you want to see Bernard's work for yourself, Sounds We Have No Letters For will be screening in Little Tokyo this Thursday, July 28. 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2019-06-21 17:31 books blog High Weirdness | The MIT Press High Weirdness is the first book in a very long time that's given me the feeling of discovering a secret truth - a set of corridors through the maze of consciousness, existence, anomaly, and synchronicity. It's the sense of complete novelty yet utter familiarity, like suddenly remembering a dream that you've been having every night and then forgetting. Davis is describing, perhaps even retrieving, the strange attractor driving the visionary seventies. It's a sensibility all but lost to the utilitarian, conformist predictability of the digital age. Yet it's also precisely the terrifying and awesome novelty we need to recover if we're going to preserve the uniquely human ability to embrace paradox, celebrate ambiguity, and laugh at death. Don't be afraid. It's just the weird. author of Team Human and Present Shock 2019-05-25 15:35 nature blog Karl Blossfeldt's Urformen der Kunst (1928) - The Public Domain Review From 1898, and for the next three decades, Blossfeldt taught design at Berlin's School of the Museum of Decorative Arts. It was here, using a homemade pinhole camera with custom magnifying lenses, that he first began to take his remarkable photographs, for the purpose of teaching his students about the patterns and designs found in natural forms. Through the technology of photography Blossfeldt was able to reveal to his students details difficult to see by the naked eye. Gallery: Weegee's New York City Crime Scene Photos Earlier this year, he pulled it out for a look. The prints had, over the years, curled up into a tight roll, and he had to slide them apart from one end. That's when he noticed that most of them bore a photographer's stamp on the back: PHOTO BY A. FELLIG. Why 'Slaughterhouse-Five' Resonates 50 Years Later - The Atlantic Fifty years have passed since the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five. It's the same age as me. And the older I get, and the more lumps fall off my brain, the more I find that rereading is the thing. Build your own little cockeyed canon and then bear down on it; get to know it, forward and backward; get to know it well. So I don't know how many times I've read Slaughterhouse-Five. Three? Four? It never gets old, is the point. It never wanes in energy. This book is in no way the blossom of a flower. Slaughterhouse-Five is more in the nature of a superpower that the mutant author had to teach himself to master - and then could use, at full strength, only once. 2019-03-13 21:45 history books blog A Brief History Of The White Horse Tavern, NYC's Legendary Literary Watering Hole: Gothamist In the mid-20th century, literary luminaries including James Baldwin and Anaïs Nin frequented the watering hole, and Jack Kerouac was a particularly unruly patron. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation notes that Kerouac was ejected from the bar so many times that someone took it upon themselves to carve "JACK GO HOME!" on a bathroom stall. Legend has it that the idea for the Village Voice (RIP) was born over drinks at the bar, known colloquially as "The Horse." And most famously, the White Horse is where Welsh poet Dylan Thomas swilled his final drinks before his death; his portrait still hangs by his usual seat. Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History? - The New York Times A friend gave Bob Parent a tip: be at the Open Door on West 3rd Street on Sunday. Mr. Parent, a photographer with a knack for showing up at the right time and place, didn't need much encouragement. He arrived at the jazz club early in the evening of Sept. 13, 1953. It was unseasonably cool for late summer. The New York Times front page detailed the marriage of Senator John F. Kennedy and the glamorous Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, R.I. The Brooklyn Dodgers had just clinched the pennant in Milwaukee. Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87 - The New York Times "Americans cannot accept that a children's-book author should do erotic work or erotic satire," he told The New York Times in 2008, when some of his children's books began to be republished in the United States and Britain. "Even in New York it just wasn't acceptable." Jonas Mekas, 'Godfather' of American Avant-Garde Film, Is Dead at 96 - The New York Times "I can't understand why people prefer the grossness and banality of a Hollywood or a European Art movie, as against the illuminations and ecstasies of an Avant-garde Film," Mr. Mekas wrote in an essay in The New York Times in 1969. "The Hollywood film deals with gross, simplified realities, banalized feelings, ideas, thoughts. The Avant-garde Film deals with the subtler nuances of experience, emotions, ideas, perceptions - it illuminates them - it deals with things that make you finer. "I do not understand," he continued, "by what logic the public, film critics and educators choose to spend thousands of hours of their lives with second-rate art, while at the same time making fun of the Avant-garde Film." 'Sonic attack' on US embassy in Havana could have been crickets, say scientists | World news | The Guardian But a fresh analysis of the audio recording has revealed what scientists in the UK and the US now believe is the true source of the piercing din: it is the song of the Indies short-tailed cricket, known formally as Anurogryllus celerinictus. "The recording is definitively a cricket that belongs to the same group," said Fernando Montealegre-Zapata, a professor of sensory biology at the University of Lincoln. "The call of this Caribbean species is about 7 kHz, and is delivered at an unusually high rate, which gives humans the sensation of a continuous sharp trill." The 'Godfather of Animated Cinema' Makes More Than Just Movies - The New York Times The movie he was working on at the time, "Castle of Otranto," came under greater scrutiny, and censors demanded he make many changes. Mr. Svankmajer refused and as a result was banned from filmmaking. He could not finish his movie until 1979 when the prohibition was lifted. "I never was a political artist," Mr. Svankmajer said "but I am an engaged artist, because Surrealism was always an engaged art. The idea of Surrealism is to change the world - that's Marx - and to transform life - that's Rimbaud," he added, referring to the 19th century French poet. Mixtape: Métron Records - Masahiro Takahashi - Visual Melt I think it's important for me to keep my own pace by creating music as if I'm slowly tending a miniature garden after coming home from my day job. However, I'm not sure if my music is defined as ambient music. For now, I feel soothed when I listen to or make music that is quiet and calming or takes me to some faraway place. 2018-12-14 09:04 mind blog Bertrand Russell's Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: "Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal" | Open Culture The best way to overcome it [the fear of death] - so at least it seems to me - is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. We Are Drowning in a Devolved World: An Open Letter from Devo - Noisey Forty-eight years ago, on May 4, 1970, as a member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), I was front and centre being fired on by my fellow Americans in the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University, as we peacefully protested President Nixon's expansion of the cancerously unpopular Vietnam War into Cambodia without an act of Congress. I was lucky and dodged the bullet, both literally and figuratively, but four students were killed, and nine more were seriously wounded by the armed, mostly teenaged, National Guard troops. Two of the four students killed, Alison Krause and Jeffery Miller, were close acquaintances of mine. 2018-12-05 17:55 space blog Falling in Love With the Dark - Nautilus - Pocket For roughly the past two decades, at least two-thirds of the U.S. population have not been able to see the Milky Way at all, and it will get worse before it gets better. The dawn of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting is expected to significantly lower costs and spur consumption. In addition, LED lighting produces light with a bluer cast, which is more effectively scattered by the atmosphere. "This has the potential to be the nail in the coffin for seeing stars in most communities," Nordgren tells me.

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Now browsing in: BIOGRAPHY General biographies Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain Arts & entertainment bi... General biographies Memoirs Sport biographies True stories by Goldberg, Danny Paperback / softback, pages Drawing on Danny's own memories of Kurt, files which previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt's close family, friends and former bandmates, Serving the Servant sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servant is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought - one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn't alive until after Kurt's death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that have come before. It's So Easy (and Other Lies) by: McKagan, Duff 'It's So Easy (and Other Lies)' is the explosive autobiography of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bass guitarist Duff McKagan. by: Domino, Christophe A detailed study of Francis Bacon - the man and the artist - looking at his influence on 20th-century art and providing a fascinating insight into his childhood, influences, intentions, methods and sources. This book presents his work in six... by: Nietzsche, Friedrich In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and 'Ecce Homo' remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written.

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Upcoming Events and Shows A Talent for Murder A Talent For Murder is an original play written by Katie Welch when she was in high school. "The students at Riverton High School is getting ready for the annual school Talent Show. Everyone is so excited, until someone murdered last year's winner Amanda during the Talent Show. The audience will be the detectives and try to figure out who killed last year's winner in "A Talent for Murder." The audience will have a chance to solve the case and win the prize. There will be interaction between the cast (who are still alive) and the audience during intermission. In your playbill, there will be a paper. You write your name and the character's name of who you think the murder is. If you are correct and your name is pulled out of the basket, you will win the prize. Copyright © 2019. Broadway Everyday Star Theater

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Tag: Indiana high school basketball "All for Lebanon!": A Retrospective of the 1917 Indiana High School Basketball Championship Season In 1917, basketball was only twenty-five years old. Indiana high school basketball was a bit younger than that, and the state tournament was only in its seventh year (its sixth under Indiana High School Athletic Association control). Hoosier Hysteria was quickly taking root, as year after year more high school teams entered sectional tournaments with dreams of hardwood glory. Basketball in Lebanon began a bit later than other communities, but it quickly became a favorite sport of the town's teenage boys. The school team's reputation and skill-level improved year after year and culminated in a state title in 1912. Many influential figures in basketball's development in the state walked the halls of Lebanon High School in the 1910s. The following narrative provides an overview of some of those people, and their accomplishments that culminated in Lebanon winning a second state basketball title in 1917. Lebanon High School's coach Ward "Piggy" Lambert was among the best Indiana high school coaches in the nineteen-teens. He came to Lebanon after their first state championship, and started coaching in the fall of 1912. He won 79% of his games in four seasons on the bench. His teams were perennial title contenders. Perhaps the best team that he coached at Lebanon was the 1914 squad, which due to an unfortunate draw in the state tournament played six games in a little over twenty-four hours before succumbing to fatigue and the well-rested, Homer Stonebraker-led, Wingate team, which won the 1914 crown. In 1915, Thorntown's team surprised Coach Lambert's squad in the sectional, and went on to win the 1915 title. Lambert and his boys reclaimed the sectional in 1916, but suffered a narrow, and disappointing defeat to Martinsville in the second round of the state tournament. Lebanon coach Ward "Piggy" Lambert. Photo from Lebanon High School yearbook, The Cedars, 1915. Accessed via Ancestry.com Lebanon projected to return most of its team the following season, including two impressive underclassmen who were first and third on the team in scoring. Unfortunately, Coach Lambert would not return for a fifth season. In the summer of 1916, he became the head basketball coach at Purdue University where he would go on to a hall-of-fame career, and positively influence generations of players, including John Wooden. Lebanon's high school administrators hired Wabash College graduate Alva R. Staggs to replace Lambert, and teach English. However, Lambert's coaching in the years before had honed athletic skills, developed high basketball IQs, and created a winning culture in his high school charges, and set the stage for Staggs' successful season. THE REGULAR SEASON Due to injuries and eligibility issues, the 1916-17 Lebanon squad did not start the season as anticipated. Three year letterman and team captain Frank "Doc" Little, who played back guard, would miss most of his senior season due to a hip injury. Gerald Gardner, who the Indianapolis News described as "evasive as a mosquito," had been a third team all-tournament player in '16 after accounting for 42% of Lebanon's points. Yet, academic eligibility issues erased most of the forward's junior season. Don White, floor guard, led the team in scoring with 11.4 ppg during the regular and post season. His scoring accounted for 30% of the team's offense. Photo from Lebanon High School yearbook, The Cedars, 1917. Accessed at Ralph W. Stark Heritage Center, Lebanon Public Library. Even with these personnel losses, the Lebanon coach and players adapted. Staggs cycled through six different starting line-ups in the first ten games of the season. The two constants in the line-up were floor guard Don White and back guard Clyde Grater. White, a junior, was the team's leading scorer as a sophomore and would retain the honor for the rest of his high school career. Grater, a sophomore, was in his first year on the varsity. At 5' 8½" in height, he was much shorter than the prototypical back guard who was at this time the tallest and heaviest player on the team. Despite his average stature, Grater played the defensively-obsessed role very well. Other players who started for Lebanon in the early part of the season were George White (Don's older brother), Charles "Dutch" Frank, Bob Ball, Harry "Peck" DeVol (the Whites' first cousin), and Fred "Cat" Adam (the second-leading scorer from the previous season). Lebanon rolled through the first half of the season. They compiled an 9-0 record against Veedersburg, Advance, Rockville, Washington, New Richmond (twice), Thorntown, Lafayette Jefferson, and Martinsville. The squad averaged ten points better than their opponents during this span. The game against defending state champ Lafayette Jeff was such an anticipated early season event that a Jeff physics teacher sent in-game updates via wireless to an amateur radio operator in Lebanon. The Lebanon receiver subsequently relayed updates of the game to local businesses via telephone. Clyde Grater, defensive ace. Photo from Lebanon High School yearbook, The Cedars, 1918. Accessed at Ralph W. Stark Heritage Center, Lebanon Public Library. After the triumph over Jeff, a few cracks appeared in the quality of the team's play. A revenge-hungry New Richmond team played a physically rough game in which Lebanon escaped with a five point lead. In the next game, Lebanon had to go into overtime to defeat Martinsville by a last second field goal. They returned home to play Advance, and the wheels fell off. The up-start Boone County rival shellacked Lebanon, 28-6. A week later Lebanon lost to another Boone County team in Thorntown, 30-20. Although on a two-game losing streak, the "Black and Gold" had a 9-2 record and a favorable schedule ahead against Frankfort (twice), Crawfordsville (twice), an away game against Rochester, and home games against Jeff, Washington, Martinsville, and Bedford. Over the final ten games, Coach Staggs settled on a regular line-up of DeVol and Adam at forwards, Ball at center, and White and Grater in the back court. With this line-up, Staggs fielded a trio of his best scorers. White was the team's most consistent scorer all season with ten points per game. Ball and Adam disappointed over the first ten games with averages of less than three points. However, once inserted into the starting line-up the duo averaged ten points a piece over the final 10 games. With five games left in the season, "Doc" Little and Gerald Gardner returned to the team. Their immediate contributions were minimal, but they bolstered the bench of a booming Lebanon team. Over the final nine games, the Lebanon cagers routed their opponents by over 26 points a game. On the season, the team compiled an 18-2 record, with an offensive average of 33.15 points a game, and a defensive average of 17.9 points against. THE SECTIONAL TOURNEY Fred "Cat" Adam, forward/center, averaged 7.5 ppg as a junior in '17. Photo from Lebanon High School yearbook, The Cedars, 1917. Accessed at Ralph W. Stark Heritage Center, Lebanon Public Library. The Indiana High School Athletic Association selected Lebanon as a district host for a sectional tournament, which was held on March 9 and 10, 1917. The townsfolk welcomed squads and fans from Boone, Carroll, and Clinton counties, including: Advance, Bringhurst, Burlington, Colfax, Cutler, Delphi, Flora, Frankfort, Jamestown, Kirklin, Thorntown, and Zionsville. Don White and company had little trouble with their first two sectional opponents, Cutler and Delphi, and defeated the Carroll County teams by an average margin of victory of 59 points. Their next challenger, Thorntown, would present a much tougher match-up. The friendly rivals had split their regular season series. Thorntown also had the advantage of having three players and a coach from their championship season in 1915. The scores were close throughout the sectional game. Thorntown held a 10-9 lead at intermission. This was only the third time all season that Lebanon trailed at half time, and they lost on the previous two occasions. Don White determined to not let it happen again. He came out white hot in the second half with seven unanswered points. His scoring whipped the fans into a frenzy. Thorntown was down seven with a quarter to play. They clawed back, and cut Lebanon's lead to three, but a series of miscues including two missed free throws sealed the fate of the Sugar Creek Township team. Prognosticators picked the sectional final between Lebanon and Advance to be another tough contest, especially after Advance's surprise victory over Lebanon at mid-season. However, Advance lost their star player to injury in the semi-final. To compound matters for Advance, Lebanon's bench depth allowed Coach Staggs to flex his line-up to rest his regular starters and give "Doc" Little and Gardner some additional playing time. In the final, White's 17 points almost outscored Advance single-handedly as Lebanon powered past Advance, 37-18. THE STATE FINALS On March 16, twenty sectional winners convened at Indiana University to vie for the state title. Lebanon played three uncompetitive contests in the early rounds to advance to the finals. They sank Trafalgar in their first contest, 34-14. In the quarterfinals, the Lebanonites left Kendallville tilting at windmills, 43-8. In the semis, the Boone County boys sent Martinsville packing, 36-12. The final pitted Lebanon against the speedy Gary Emerson team. The majority of the crowd of 4,000 rallied behind the underdogs from Gary at the start. Yet the crowd grew silent as Lebanon built a 25-15 lead by half time. The Steel City team went on a run in the second half to make it a three point game. With the score at 25-22, Lebanon surged ahead with a 9-4 run to ice the game, 34-26. White and Adam tied for team highs with ten points a piece. With the win, Lebanon won its second state championship. White was a consensus all-state tournament first team member. Adam, Little, and DeVol appeared on various all-tournament lists either on the first or second teams. 1917 Indiana basketball champion team from Lebanon. Photo from Lebanon High School yearbook, The Cedars, 1917. Accessed at Ralph W. Stark Heritage Center, Lebanon Public Library. Coach Staggs left Lebanon after the school year to accept a job at Anderson High School. Little, DeVol, and Frank would join mid-season graduate George White in the ranks of Lebanon alumni. Bob Ball although technically a junior would leave high school and enter DePauw University, depriving the team of its second leading scorer. Yet the core of White, Grater, and Adam would return for the 1917-18 season. Under the tutelage of a new coach, Glenn Curtis, and a younger cast of supporting characters they would win the state tournament again, and join the historical annals with Wingate as back-to-back state champions. After graduating in 1918, Don White reunited with his old coach, Ward Lambert, and continued his athletic career at Purdue. He was second in the Big Ten in scoring as a sophomore, and led the conference in scoring as a junior while also leading the university to the conference title in 1921. After college, White entered the coaching ranks where he had a thirty-five year career at Washington University (St. Louis), the University of Connecticut, and Rutgers. He even coached Thailand's Olympic team in 1956. After high school, Adam and Grater teamed together again at Wabash College where they were multi-sport athletes, and fixtures in the basketball line-up. After graduation they both became high school teachers and coaches. Learn more about Lebanon High School basketball history with a presentation by IHB Director Chandler Lighty at the Lebanon Public Library. The talk takes place Monday, March 20, 2017 from 6-8 p.m. and includes a special viewing of an LHS 1967 basketball film. Author S. Chandler LightyPosted on March 16, 2017 March 17, 2017 Categories 20th century, Boone County, Sports HistoryTags 1917 state basketball championship, Alva Staggs, basketball, Clyde Grater, Don White, Fred Adam, Fred Cat Adam, Homer Stonebraker, Hoosier Hysteria, IHSAA state basketball champs, Indiana basketball tournament, Indiana high school basketball, Indiana high school champions, John Wooden, Lebanon, Lebanon High School, Piggy Lambert, Purdue University basketball, Thorntown basketball, Ward Lambert

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Tag: Miami County The Indelible Ross Lockridges Ross Lockridge Sr. and Jr. camping, photographed by three-year-old Ernest (son of Sr.) in the summer of 1942, image courtesy of Evansville.edu. Ross Lockridge Sr. and Jr. left an indelible mark on Indiana history through traditional history publications and fictional depiction. However, the father and son have yet to be cemented in the annals of state history. We hope to contribute to that reversal. The senior Lockridge was born in Miami County, Indiana in 1877 and went on to graduate from Indiana University in 1900. He married and returned to his north central Hoosier home. He became the principal of Peru High School, and later earned a law degree from IU in 1907. Not long after, he moved to Fort Wayne and worked as employment manager and welfare director at Wayne Knitting Mills. He also served three years as executive secretary of the Citizen League of Indiana, which lobbied for a new state constitution and advocated for women's suffrage. Wayne Knitting Mills, 1910, courtesy of History Center Notes & Queries. While in Fort Wayne, Lockridge Sr. helped organize the Allen County Fort Wayne Historical Society. During this time his reputation grew as a writer of pioneer Indiana history. According to Larry Lockridge, his grandfather, Ross Sr.,"developed his own brand of 'Historic Site Recital,' combing public speaking, drama, and local history." Between 1937 and 1950, Lockridge Sr. served as a director of IU Foundation's Hoosier Historic Memorial Activities Agency. Some of his published works include: George Rogers Clark (1927), A. Lincoln (1930), LaSalle (1931), The Old Fauntleroy Home (1939), and Labyrinth (1941), Theodore F. Thieme (1942). His The Story of Indiana (1951) was primarily used as a text in Indiana at the junior high school level. The historian also wrote about Johnny Appleseed, the Underground Railroad, and Indiana's trails, rivers, and canals. Another extended work, which continues to aid transportation history researchers, is Historic Hoosier Roadside Sites, commissioned in 1938 by the Indiana State Highway Association. He worked tirelessly to mark the state's landscape with monuments and markers, preserve records, and execute historical pageants. His clear and concise writing style has added to Hoosier's knowledge of their past. The Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, IN), March, 23, 1936, courtesy of Newspapers.com. According to Larry Lockridge, his grandfather "didn't exactly whitewash history," but he "certainly edited it. He attempted to bind people to their own local history through heroic narrative." After the tragic drowning of Ross Sr.'s 5-year-old son, Bruce, in Fort Wayne, his dedication to historical work intensified. Larry contends: "Preaching history as resurrection of the worthy dead was his idealistic, nonmetaphysical challenge to time and mortality, grounded in the tragedies of his own life and the pettiness of the contemporary scene." Ross Jr. assisted his father with historical projects, but according to Larry was "not his father's puppet at such performances" and "never approached his father's ease of performance and lack of self-consciousness." Ross Jr. was born in Bloomington, Indiana and moved to Fort Wayne. When he was 9-years-old the family returned to Bloomington and his literary dreams took root. According to an Indiana Public Media article (IPM), Junior attended Indiana University, where he was known as "A+ Lockridge," graduating with the highest GPA ever awarded by the school (4.33). Scarlet fever precluded his plan to join IU's English Department, leaving him bedridden for eight months. He was later accepted as at doctoral student at Harvard University, where he began his famed novel. Raintree County cover, courtesy of Goodreads // Ross Lockridge Jr. signing copies of Raintree County in Indiana, courtesy of Altered Book Arts. According to an Altered Books Arts article, he withdrew from his studies and taught at a nearby college, so he could focus on his literary magnum opus. The IPM article reports that he studied abroad in Europe in 1934, where he "first had the vision of writing a novel that would draw upon the would-be literary heritage of his maternal grandfather, a schoolteacher and poet who had lived in Indiana's Henry County." This evolved into the character of John Shawnessy, who after losing his wife went on to fight in the Civil War, attempted to write the Great American Novel, and ended up in the fictional Raintree County. Photo of a raintree planted in honor of Ross Jr. behind the Lockridge house, image courtesy Larry Lockridge, accessed IPM. Although Johnny had his successes, the character flashed back in memory wondering about the country's future. He is influenced by several cultural concepts, one of which is to find the legendary Rain Tree, supposedly planted somewhere in the Raintree County by the celebrated Johnny Appleseed, who is buried in Allen County. The tree Lockridge sought to feature is based on a real Golden Rain Tree, which blooms in the summer with subtle yellow flowers that drop like a raining of yellow pollen dust. In addition to Allen County, Monroe County is represented in the book. Larry noted, "We have county fairs and patriotic programs and outdoor sex and footraces and weddings and temperance dramas and rough talk . . . all of this he picked up in the culture of Bloomington" (IPM). Ross Jr.'s wife, Vernice, did the final typing of the novel, an 18 month endeavor and, unlike many writers, her husband gave her full credit for her help in constructing the 1060-page novel. Altered Books Arts summarizes the novel's themes, stating: "In the course of its thousand pages philosophy, religion, sex, and history all flow together in a narrative that spans 40 years, recollected in a single day. In some ways it is an Indiana Ulysses, though Lockridge said that whereas Joyce wished to make the simple obscured, he wished to make the obscure simple. When it came out Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman were frequently cited for comparison, but it seems closer to in technique and feeling to the panoramic narrative of John Dos Passos' U.S.A." Ross Lockridge Jr. by river, image courtesy of Larry Lockridge, accessed IPM. Ross Jr.'s labor of love was met with much anticipation from his publisher, Houghton Mifflin. However, in order to win MGM's high-profile contest for best new literary work, an award of $150,000, he was pressured to revise and cut several sections from his masterpiece. His likely selection as Book of the Month club winner, meant that he had to make many more extensive cuts. He conceded reluctantly and worked tirelessly to trim it for publication. His publisher Dorothy Hillyer wrote "Ross was quite capable of fussing eighteen hours a day over that manuscript. He was in love with it, almost sexually." (He ended up cutting out a 356-page dream sequence, which is retained at Bloomington's Lilly Library). These compromises, the killing of his darlings, so to speak, and the completion of his life's work plunged him into a deep depression. Despite generally rave reviews about the novel and winning MGM's literary award, Lockridge's depression worsened and he returned to Bloomington. His son regarded this as a mistake, "not because of Bloomington's particular atmosphere but because it felt to him as if he had come full circle. . . . It was the symmetry of fate that he was returning home to die." Larry noted that his father began exhibiting bizarre behavior, inspecting knives in the kitchen and opening and closing cupboards, claiming he was "looking for a way out." Public backlash about the book's sexuality and irreverence, especially by his Bloomington neighbors, made him doubt the quality of his work and worsened his fragile state. (According to IPM, the publication of his neighbor Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male promoted Lockridge to quip "It seems Mr. Kinsey and I have succeeded in making Bloomington the sex center of the universe"). The cover of Mary Jane Ward's autobiographical novel about her own struggles with mental illness, image courtesy of IPM. Ross Jr.'s father hoped to combat his son's malaise with recitation, the memorization of the Declaration of Independence, hearkening back to their old historical endeavors. Ross Jr. reluctantly entertained his mother's Christian Science ministrations, but remained in a debilitated state. Ross Jr. was not alone in his distress; his cousin Mary Jane Ward suffered from mental illness, which she depicted in her successful autobiographical novel The Snake Pit. Witnessing her husband's ongoing suffering, Vernice convinced him to seek treatment at Indianapolis's Methodist Hospital, where he underwent electroshock convulsive therapy and insulin-induced coma. Further distressed and embarrassed by the procedures, he gave staff the impression he had recovered and was released. According to Larry, his father tried to write a second novel, a "thinly disguised autobiography, from Fort Wayne days to the present." He had planned to begin the story with his young brother's tragic death and, "the tranquil Avenue of Elms, Creighton Avenue in Fort Wayne, whose backdrop was the Great War. It is in this city that his brother Bruce drowns, that his house catches fire, that there is a great strike at the mill, that he falls in love with Alicia Carpenter, that he decides to become a writer, and that through 'the brutality of fate' his personality is set by the age of ten." He was never able to finish a second novel. On March 6, 1948, the day after Raintree County was declared a number one best seller, Ross Lockridge, Jr. took his own life at age 33 in Bloomington. Unable to locate her husband, Vernice went out to their garage. There she discovered his limp body in the running car, a vacuum cleaner hose piping exhaust into the car. The death of the new literary star stunned the nation, attracting over 2,000 to his funeral and prompting an obituary on the front page of the New York Times. Movie poster, courtesy of Imdb.com. In 1957, MGM produced a big screen depiction of Raintree County, featuring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Eva Marie Saint. Weeks after the death, Vernice found a note written by her husband, stating "'Dearest, Have gone for early morning walk to clear head. Love, Ross." On the back side he wrote: "The purpose of Raintree County is to present life in its many-sided variety with idealism triumphant. An irreverent character in a book does not mean an irreverent book. In any event it is an old and good rule that every reader is entitled to his own opinion of a book." Surviving the death of a second son, Ross Sr. passed away a few years later in 1952. Henry County plaque, courtesy of IU Press Typepad. Learn more about the remarkable Lockridges with Larry Lockridge's 1994 Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Rain Tree County. Author Tom CastaldiPosted on September 2, 2016 September 6, 2016 Categories 20th century, Allen County, Cultural history, Literature, Monroe County, UncategorizedTags Alfred Kinsey, Allen County Fort Wayne Historical Society, Bloomington, Citizens League of Indiana, Elizabeth Taylor, Fort Wayne, Henry County, Historic Hoosier Roadside Sites, historical marker, History, Hoosier Historic Memorial Activities Agency, Houghton Mifflin, Indiana, Indiana University, John Shawnessy, Larry Lockridge, MGM, Miami County, Montgomery Clift, novel, Peru High School, Raintree County, Ross Lockridge Jr., Ross Lockridge Sr., suicide, The Snake Pit, Vernice Lockridge, Wayne Knitting Mills

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Phishing Protection vs Privacy in Firefox and Chrome February 05, 2017 by Thomas Leplus in Computer Security A decade ago when anti-phishing mechanisms started to be added to web browsers, I remember disabling these features immediately thinking sarcastically: "Great, now every site that I visit will be sent to a third-party for validation. Thank you but no thank you!" I thought that the privacy trade off was not worth the price and that I was better off simply being careful about the site I visit and the links I click. You could say that I was arrogant but in those days, phishing attacks were not very sophisticated and fairly easy to detect. In particular they were usually not targeted. I was living in France at the time and since most phishing campaigns were aimed at Americans, it was obvious to me that the US Internal Revenue Service did not really owed me any money or that I did not need to reset my Bank Of America password since I did not have any account there! However things have changed since then. Phishing attacks have become cleverer, leveraging the trove of information stolen from Yahoo!, LinkedIn, DropBox and many other widely used online services. Spear phishing attacks against high value targets are becoming frequent. And I now live in the US, meaning that I fall right into the target audience of scammers. Wonderful! So I've decided to see what I could do be about it. My first idea was to revisit the anti-phishing options in Firefox. How does it work? Here is what this Firefox support page has to says: There are two times when Firefox will communicate with Mozilla's partners while using Phishing and Malware Protection for sites. The first is during the regular updates to the lists of reporting phishing and malware sites. No information about you or the sites you visit is communicated during list updates. The second is in the event that you encounter a reported phishing or malware site. Before blocking the site, Firefox will request a double-check to ensure that the reported site has not been removed from the list since your last update. This request does not include the address of the visited site, it only contains partial information derived from the address. Using a locally downloaded list is a great start but it leaves a few open questions. Certainly Firefox cannot refresh the entire list of phishing and malware URLs regularly, there must be millions of entries in that list by now and it is probably growing at an exponential rate. Is it why they need to "double-check" online, to query a more up-to-date or comprehensive list? But then are we back to square one where the "partners" get the URLs of at least some of the sites you visit? And who are those partners anyway? The first clue to the answer of these questions is at the end of Firefox's page: "The Google Policy Privacy explains how Google handles collected data." That seems to indicate that Google is somehow involved in this. And this is confirmed further down the page when it says: "To request removal from the list of reported phishing sites, use this form provided by Google." Now we are going somewhere. Firefox is using the same mechanism as Chrome, known as "Google Safe Browsing". The service's API documentation explains how it works pretty well but an even better summary can be found in this Chromium Blog post. I am going to try to summarize it even further. When anti-phishing is enabled, the browser downloads from Google a list of 32-bit hashes of normalized URLs for know phishing sites. 32-bit is not enough to prevent collisions with legitimate sites URLs but it is enough to be downloaded regularly without requiring a lot of bandwidth or storage. Also it is enough to avoid the need for an online check for the vast majority of pages that you visit. However, when a visited page's 32-bit hash has a match in the list, your browser cannot be certain that it is one of the URLs flagged by Google due to the hash collision risk explained before. So what the browser does is that it sends the 32-bit hash to the Safe Browsing server which returns the 256-bit hashes of the bad URLs. If 256-bit hash of the URL that you were about to visit matches one of the 256-bit hashes received, the browser can pop a warning confidently since the risks of collisions with 256 bits is dramatically reduced, not to say inexistent. Of course you have given some information to Google, 32 bits of information to be precise, but what does that amount to? 32 bits represent about 4.3 billion possible values. It is hard to know for certain how many pages are in Google's index but this site claims that there were around 30 trillion indexed pages in 2014 and that the number back then was almost doubling every two years. So now that we are starting 2017, it gives us a rough estimate of more than 10,000 pages per 32-bit hash. Of course not all these pages have an equal probability to be the one that you are visiting, and Google could probably significantly reduce the number of candidates by using the rest of the information it knows about you (location, language etc.). But my point is that they do a fairly good attempt to anonymize your private data in this instance. In the end it is up to you to decide if you want to trust this browser feature or not. But given that the alternative is being exposed to phishing attacks, I personally chose to re-enable this feature to defend myself against a risk that I know exist, rather than preventing a privacy violation that could exist. Short URL for this post: February 05, 2017 /Thomas Leplus Firefox, Chrome, Google, privacy, phishing, spear phishing, malware, spam iPhone apps are not magically secure July 15, 2011 by Thomas Leplus in Computer Security, Software I have been wondering about the iPhone apps security for a long time. Most apps are connected to some sort of web service but are they using SSL? We spent so much time educating users to check the security icon in their web browser and now the iPhone comes out and nobody cares anymore! That bugs me so I decided to find out. LinkedIn, Squarespace, Tumblr, iOS, iPad, iPhone, network, password, privacy, security Computer Security, Software

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Business Groups Say Cuomo's Prevailing Wage Plan a 'Death Sentence' for Development Jan 17, 2019 | Announcements By Samantha Christmann Published 5:00 a.m. January 17, 2019 The Buffalo News Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to change the state's prevailing wage mandate, expanding its requirements to include contractors doing work on projects receiving state funds. But critics said the change could raise construction labor costs by an estimated 20 percent and put a damper on development. The prevailing wage in Western New York is set by the State Department of Labor. It varies by job position and location, but usually mirrors the pay scale in collective bargaining agreements negotiated by trade unions. Contractors are already required to pay the prevailing wage on public works projects. But Cuomo said in his State of the State address Tuesday that he wants to expand the public works definition to include private-sector projects assisted by tax breaks from industrial development agencies. The Buffalo-Niagara Partnership was among 18 business groups that sent a letter to the governor last March asking him not to expand the prevailing wage requirements. Calling the mandate "already flawed and miscalculated," it said the change would hurt smaller community-based projects that are driven by private dollars. Those projects break even at their current wage rates and increasing costs would "make many of them financially unfeasible," the groups said. "For most projects, such a drastic increase in total project cost dwarfs the incentives and economic benefits bestowed," the letter said. The letter pointed to a report from the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank, which compared the prevailing wage to the regional medians of occupational wages for all non-residential building construction workers, including those paid union scale. It found the prevailing wage increased construction labor costs by 20 percent in the Buffalo region. Unshackle Upstate, a business advocacy group, said the prevailing wage expansion would "severely weaken our economy and hurt taxpayers." "The proposal to apply prevailing wage to all projects that receive state funding is a death sentence for upstate economic development initiatives. Under this mandate, efforts to fix our crumbling infrastructure would be far too expensive to pursue," the group said in a statement. The National Federation of Independent Business, a small business association, said expanding the mandate would harm small businesses. "NFIB and our members remain concerned that some proposed employer mandates contained in the Governor's address appear to embrace a flawed, one-size-fits-all regulatory model that severely limits the autonomy and flexibility small businesses need to attract talent and remain competitive," Greg Biryla, the group's New York State director, said in a statement.

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President Trump's Proposal to Eliminate Federal Support for Certain K-12 Programs Would Hurt Economically Disadvantaged Students in Every Part of California Education · April 18, 2017 · By Jonathan Kaplan The underlying data for this post are available for download. Download the Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) grants funding by congressional district or by K-12 school district. Special thanks to Budget Center Senior Policy Analyst Sara Kimberlin for her assistance in preparing these data sets. As we blogged about recently, President Trump's budget blueprint for federal "discretionary" spending proposes significant cuts to a range of key public systems and services. While this so-called "skinny budget" lacks important details, it calls for eliminating two K-12 education programs and, by doing so, would reduce the funding available to every California school district as well as to many community-based organizations across the state. California is estimated to receive more than $365 million for these two programs in federal fiscal year (FFY) 2017, which began October 1, 2016: $252 million for Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (also known as "Title II, Part A" funds), which aim in part to increase the number of educators and advance their quality and effectiveness; and $114 million for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which supports before- and after-school as well as summer school programs. Although these two federal funding streams represent just a fraction of the $74.5 billion overall that is budgeted for K-12 education in California in 2016-17 (the state fiscal year that began July 1, 2016), their elimination would disproportionately affect students from low-income families because dollars for these programs are targeted to these learners. A closer look at the SEI State Grants helps show why. Federal funding for SEI grants provides California with more dollars than does any other federal K-12 program aside from grants for special education and Title I funds, which support students from low-income families. SEI grants are provided to states based on a formula weighted toward the number of students living in poverty. As a result, nearly half (47 percent) of Title II, Part A dollars in 2015-16 were allocated to the highest-poverty districts in the nation, according to a US Department of Education (USDOE) survey. What's more, changes to the allocation of SEI dollars, made by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, will increase the proportion of funds provided for children in poverty starting in FFY 2018. This all means that the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate the SEI grants would cut funding specifically intended to help students most in need. The USDOE survey also shows that more than one-third (35 percent) of school districts use SEI dollars to hire teachers and reduce class sizes. This strongly suggests that the Trump administration's proposal would eliminate funds that help mitigate California's worsening teacher shortage crisis - a shortage that disproportionately affects school districts with large shares of students from low-income families. And the fact that, nationwide, nearly half (45 percent) of teachers paid with SEI dollars to reduce class sizes are in the highest-poverty districts means that disadvantaged students are likely to be hurt substantially by ending the SEI grants. Recent reports indicate that certain areas of the state - including the San Joaquin Valley - have been hit especially hard by the state's teacher shortage. And underqualified teachers are employed at a higher rate than the statewide average in many parts of the state that receive the most SEI grant funding. Elimination of the SEI grants would reduce funding for K-12 schools in every California congressional district, but some districts and certain areas of the state would lose more than others (see maps below). For example: Among congressional districts that are in the "top third" (the top 18 of all 53 California congressional districts) in terms of losing the most SEI dollars, half are in the San Joaquin Valley or other inland parts of the state. In addition to these nine districts - 1 (R-LaMalfa), 3 (D-Garamendi), 8 (R-Cook), 9 (D-McNerney), 16 (D-Costa), 21 (R-Valadao), 22 (R-Nunes), 23 (R-McCarthy), and 51 (D-Vargas) - eight congressional districts in the Los Angeles area and one in San Diego would lose the most SEI dollars. Among the one-third of congressional districts that would lose the least SEI dollars, nearly half are in the Bay Area, the Sacramento Valley, or further up the northern California coast. In addition to these eight districts - 2 (D-Huffman), 7 (D-Bera), 11 (D-DeSaulnier), 12 (D-Pelosi), 14 (D-Speier), 15 (D-Swalwell), 17 (D-Khanna), 18 (D-Eshoo) - 10 congressional districts located in the Los Angeles region or further down the southern California coast would lose the least SEI dollars. Download SEI grants funding by California congressional district. Download SEI grants funding by California K-12 school district. Although President Trump's budget blueprint provides only limited details, it does point toward his overall approach to funding K-12 education. That approach includes depriving public schools of federal dollars that can be used to reduce class sizes throughout California. Eliminating funding for these programs will make it even harder for California schools to address growing teacher shortages - and in a cruel irony, cuts to federal funding would be the greatest in many of the same areas of the state where the impact of these shortages are felt the most. - Jonathan Kaplan Summer Financial Aid: A Tool for Boosting Low-Income Students' Graduation Rates Trump Administration Proposal to Shrink the Poverty Line Means More Hardship for Californians Key Investments for Low-Income Californians in 2019-20 Budget Bill, CalEITC Still Unresolved California College Students Are Increasingly Experiencing Mental Health Issues and Need Improved Support

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Alberta legislature begins session under NDP, and everyone is watching the money Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press Premier Rachel Notley, right, and her caucus applaud following the swearing-in ceremony in the house of the Alberta Legislature June 1, 2015. Dan Riedlhuber / The Edmonton Journal Alberta's Opposition Wildrose party is urging Premier Rachel Notley's NDP not launch its new era Monday by spending billions of dollars with little explanation. The first session of the legislature under Notley's team will run for the next couple of weeks and focus on an interim supply bill to keep the money taps flowing in Alberta until the NDP can bring in a full budget in the fall. Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt said the bill will be, in effect, a "mini-budget" to cover about half-a-year's payments for a budget already well over $40 billion in spending. "You can't be pulling this money from thin air," said Fildebrandt. "We need a big picture of the finances with the details to see if the numbers actually add up." The original budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year was introduced, but never passed, by the former Progressive Conservative government before the Tories were defeated in the May 5 election. Notley won a majority government on a platform that promised a radically different budget. It included a hike to corporate income taxes, more spending for health and education and a rollback of proposed PC hikes to taxes and user fees. She said Finance Minister Joe Ceci and his staff will be working through the summer to bring in a revised budget in the fall to match those promises. In the meantime, said Notley, it's not realistic for the Wildrose to expect a line-by-line breakdown in spending by a government that was sworn in a less than three weeks ago. "When we introduce (the bill) there will be some detail about the changes that we are proposing to make, and there will be a lot of opportunity to debate it then and much more in the fall," said Notley. The session begins with a speech from the throne Monday by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell outlining the goals and plans of Notley's new government. The NDP has promised to introduce several other bills during the session but will not reveal details until Monday. Government House Leader Brian Mason, in an interview, would only say the flagship session legislation, known as Bill 1, "will have to do with changes to fulfil a small part of our platform for democratic reform." Mason would not confirm or deny Bill 1 would focus on banning corporate and union donations to political parties, as promised in the election campaign. Ceci, in an interview, would not confirm or deny that legislation to hike the corporate income tax to 12 per cent from 10 per cent, as promised in the election, will be part of the session. Ceci would only say, "We're going to put in place some instruments that will help us smooth out our revenue situation so that we're not relying on oil and gas revenues and royalties." The session will also be the first test for Notley's government on questions in the chamber from its own backbenchers. Notley, and other opposition leaders, criticized the former Tory government for using such questions not to hold the government to account, as per their intended historical purpose, but rather as scripted "puffballs" to spotlight government achievements. Mason said he expects the NDP backbenchers, technically not part of the government, will ask what they want of the cabinet ministers. "I don't anticipate that (puffballs) will happen," said Mason. He said he expects some of the new NDP backbenchers will want to have the questions written down for convenience, but said, "that doesn't mean it's written for them." 10:00ET 14-06-15 Notley excited over Monday's 'historic' throne speech NDP pledge to end carbon capture projects easier said than done Opinion: Setting the record straight on LNG from B.C. Bryan Cox: LNG projects in B.C. will have at least half or less the emissions intensity of other LNG projects in the world.

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B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 be zero emission Zero-emission vehicles are part of the B.C. government's $902 million CleanBC program. VICTORIA - All light-duty cars and trucks sold in British Columbia would have to be zero-emission by 2040 under legislation tabled Wednesday. Energy Minister Michelle Mungall says the Zero Emission Vehicles Act aims to fight climate change by phasing out gas-powered vehicles. She says the legislation would set target dates of 10 per cent zero-emission sales by 2025, 30 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2040. The legislation would apply to new vehicles for sale or lease. Mungall says zero-emission vehicles are part of the government's $902 million CleanBC program to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 based on 2007 pollution levels. She says the CleanBC plan includes incentives for zero-emission vehicle purchases up to $5,000 on a new battery electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and up to $6,000 for a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle. "British Columbians are eager to make the switch to zero-emission vehicles," said Mungall in the legislature. "We have the highest per capita adoption of zero emission vehicles in Canada, with over 17,000 zero-emission vehicles on the road, averaging four per cent of new light-duty vehicle sales in 2018."

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Visit Colin Biggers & Paisley's Website. Pro Bono Legal Services Youth Employment Project Nothing motivates lawyers more than the ability to make an impact - on the law, legal systems and people's lives. At Colin Biggers & Paisley, we have the ability to help disenfranchised and disadvantaged people in our community. We can make the justice system work for individuals who have nothing more to give than their thanks. We can defend them, protect what is or should rightfully be theirs. We can give them a voice. We can change laws and we can make laws. And so, at the very core of the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation is the provision of pro bono legal services and advocacy for: individuals who need assistance but have no other avenue available to them matters that are in the public interest charities, NGOs, UN agencies and other non-profit organisations which work on behalf of low income or disadvantaged members of the community or for the public good The range of pro bono legal services we offer includes advice, specialised legal clinics, legal research, policy analysis, parliamentary submissions, secondments, legal education, legal skills workshops, strategic litigation and advocacy. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples , Pro Bono and Women and Children Latest News and Media COLIN BIGGERS & PAISLEY HOSTS YEAR 10 STUDENTS FROM REGIONAL NSW FOR MENTORING PROGRAM COLIN BIGGERS & PAISLEY APPOINTS TAMARA SIMS AS THE NEW HEAD OF PRO BONO AND RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS COLIN BIGGERS & PAISLEY LAUNCHES RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN COLIN BIGGERS & PAISLEY HELPS TO RAISE MORE THAN $110,000 FOR LAWRIGHT cbpfoundation.com.au Visit Colin Biggers & Paisley's Website Copyright © 2019 Colin Biggers & Paisley Pty Ltd. ABN 28 166 080 682. All rights reserved. No portion of this website may be reproduced, copied, or in any way reused without written permission from Colin Biggers & Paisley Pty Ltd.

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XC_CM_LosAngelesPremiereOfWarnerBros.PicturesHorribleBosses2_Jennifer Aniston_A015.JPG HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA - NOVEMBER 20: Actress Jennifer Aniston arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Horrible Bosses 2' held at the TCL Chinese Theatre on November 20, 2014 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Celebrity Monitor) USA, United States, United States Of America, California, CA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles - California, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills - California, Event, Red Carpet, Arts Culture and Entertainment, Red Carpet Event, Editorial, Arrival, Attending, Celebrities, Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Premiere, Film Premiere, Movie Premiere, Screening, Full Length, Headshot, Posing, Portrait, Smiling, Eye Contact, Fashion, Looking At Camera, 2014, Los Angeles Premiere, Horrible Bosses 2, Horrible Bosses 2 - 2014 Film, Horrible Bosses 2 - Film, Horrible Bosses 2 - Movie, People, Movie, Film, City Of Los Angeles, Film Industry, Film Screening, Special Screening, Special, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros., Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Mann Chinese Theatre, Chinese Theatre, TCL Chinese Theatre, TCL, Jennifer Aniston, Actress, One Person, Female, Black, White, Skirt, Black Skirt, White Top, Cleavage, Blond Hair, Blonde Hair, Hair Part, Makeup, Lipstick, Earrings, Jewelry, Closed Toe, Closed Toe Shoes, Shoes, Jennifer Joanna Aniston, American, Filmmaker, Businesswoman, 45 years old, Caucasian

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May 2, 2018 By clearlakedev Comments are Off CLEARLAKE CAPITAL-BACKED PERFORCE ADDS ENTERPRISE-GRADE SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS TO ITS PORTFOLIO WITH ACQUISITION OF PRQA PRQA's Static Code Analyzers improve code quality and security for enterprise development teams enabling faster time to market Minneapolis, Minn. - May 2, 2018 - Perforce Software ("Perforce"), a global provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the technology development lifecycle, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake"), today announced the acquisition of UK-based Programming Research Ltd. ("PRQA"), a leading provider of sophisticated, enterprise-grade static code analysis. The acquisition expands the Perforce portfolio of solutions by adding PRQA's family of Static Code Analyzers that assess software reliability, security and compliance while reducing development time. Growth through acquisition is an integral part of Perforce's business strategy to develop a comprehensive portfolio of leading enterprise scale software solutions for technology developers and development operations ("DevOps") teams. The acquisition of PRQA represents Perforce's fourth successful acquisition in the past two years, and its first under Clearlake's new ownership, which was announced in early January 2018. "With this latest acquisition we continue delivering on our strategy to offer more solutions and capabilities that improve DevOps pipeline performance for enterprise development teams," said Janet Dryer, Perforce CEO. "PRQA is a great match with Perforce as we both serve large global teams striving to deliver their solutions faster and with higher quality." PRQA solutions are widely adopted by organizations whose products need to perform securely and reliably in mission critical and safety critical environments, such as automotive, aerospace, medical and other demanding industries. Customers realize faster time-to-market due to the technology's scale and accuracy in automated inspection of source code for high risk code and non-conformance to standards. "We are excited to support the Perforce management team as they continue to execute on its buy-and-build strategy," added Prashant Mehrotra, Partner of Clearlake. "With this strategic acquisition of PRQA, Perforce now offers solutions for enterprise customers to address security and quality early in the software development lifecycle, enabling better continuous integration and continuous delivery." "PRQA have been at the forefront of code quality management for over 30 years. We have some of the world's top experts in code analysis at PRQA, and our products help our customers develop high-quality code more reliably and at a faster pace. By joining forces with Perforce we will be able to expand the reach of this great technology and deliver business value to a much bigger audience worldwide," said Paul Blundell, PRQA CEO. ABOUT PERFORCE Perforce is a leading provider of enterprise scale software solutions to technology developers and development operations ("DevOps") teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the development lifecycle. Enterprises across the globe rely on its agile planning and ALM tools, developer collaboration, static code analysis, version control and repository management solutions as the foundation for successful DevOps at scale. Perforce is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. Perforce has offices in Minneapolis, MN, Alameda, CA, Mason, OH, Boston, MA, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Germany, India, and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit . ABOUT CLEARLAKE CAPITAL Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a leading private investment firm founded in 2006. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are industrials and energy; software and technology-enabled services; and consumer. Clearlake has managed approximately $7 billion of institutional capital since inception and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 100 investments. More information is available at . Colleen Kulhanek Perforce Software Ph: +1 612-517-2069 UK/EMEA Maxine Ambrose Ambrose Communications BLICKSILVER PUBLIC RELATIONS, INC.

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118 U.S. Mayors Endorse 100% Renewable Energy Goals ClearWorld is committed to providing renewable energy solutions for a healthier, greener planet, starting at a grassroots level. By raising awareness in the local community about these issues, we can all do our part to make our cities more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly places to live. 100% Clean Energy Innovation starts with inspiration. ClearWorld applauds The Mayors for 100% Clean Energy initiative. "It makes sense for mayors across the country to work together," said San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. "Because when we talk about the future of our planet, we're talking about the future of our communities." The analysis of National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Energy Information Administration data comes before the start of the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Miami Beach, from June 23-26, where members will consider a resolution that would establish support for the goal of 100 percent clean, renewable energy in cities nationwide. In addition, the Sierra Club's Ready for 100 campaign and the co-chairs of Mayors for 100% Clean Energy announced Friday that 118 mayors across the country have endorsed a goal of powering their communities with 100 percent clean, renewable energy such as wind and solar. The Mayors for 100% Clean Energy initiative is co-chaired by Mayor Philip Levine of Miami Beach, Mayor Jackie Biskupski of Salt Lake City, Mayor Kevin Faulconer of San Diego and Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin of Columbia, South Carolina. Benjamin is also a vice president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "It's up to us as leaders to creatively implement clean energy solutions for our cities across the nation. It's not merely an option now; it's imperative," said Mayor Benjamin. "Cities and mayors can lead the transition away from fossil fuels to 100 percent clean and renewable energy." Mayoral endorsements of 100 percent renewable energy had led to ambitious action in municipalities across the U.S. The mayors of St. Petersburg, Florida and Abita Springs, Louisiana issued proclamations which endorsed a goal of transitioning to 100 percent clean and renewable energy, followed by the formal adoption of a community-wide goal establishing 100 percent clean, renewable energy as the target for city energy planning. "In San Diego, we brought business and environmental groups together to advance a goal of 100 percent renewable energy," said Mayor Faulconer. "It makes sense for mayors across the country to work together because when we talk about the future of our planet, we're talking about the future of our communities." Salt Lake City released its Climate Positive 2040 plan which detailed the specific steps and policies the city will pursue with Rocky Mountain Power to achieve the goal of 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2032. Thirty-six cities across the U.S. have committed to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy. This growing list of cities most recently includes Columbia, South Carolina, which this week unanimously voted to transition entirely to clean, renewable energy by 2036. Other cities including Los Angeles and Denver are studying pathways to 100 percent clean energy. "We can't ignore climate change because climate change is not ignoring us," said Mayor Biskupski. "Cities must adapt to cope with the threats of climate change, and that's also why we must take action to mitigate them. Salt Lake City has set the ambitious but achievable goals of generating 100 percent of the community's electricity supply from renewable energy by 2032, followed by an 80 percent reduction in community greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. We are taking action to achieve these goals and I am honored to join mayors from across our nation to lead the transition to clean, renewable energy." Transitioning all 1,400+ U.S. Conference of Mayors member-cities to 100 percent renewable electricity will significantly reduce electric sector carbon pollution August 3, 2018 ClearWorld, Climate Change, Outdoor Lighting, Outdoor solar lights, renewable energy, Smart City, solar lamps, solar LED, solar LED Lighting, Solar led lights, Solar LED Retrofit, Solar Light, Solar Lighting Solution, solar lighting system, Solar Lights Outdoor, Solar Outdoor Lighting, Solar Powered Led Lights, Solar Security Light, Solar Street light ClearWorld, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

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While I can't remember where I first heard the story of the Pied Piper, it was very likely from my Aunt Edna or Grandpa Albert. Let me remind you of the story which, as best as I can determine, was written by Robert Browning, the English Poet. The tiny town of Hamelin was seized by a seemingly uncontrollable infestation of rats. The rat plague was so bad that it threatened the health of the entire town. Widespread panic consumed the village. Then, taking a page from a future western movie, a stranger comes to town and claims that he can rid the town of the infestation. The stranger told the Mayor and the Chamber of Commerce that he could clear the city of rats for only a thousand guilders ($600,000 US Dollars in today's money). The town leaders were ecstatic at this opportunity. The stranger immediately began to walk down the main street, and rats emerged by the thousands and followed him hypnotically as he piped a tune. In fact, every single rat in the village followed as he marched them to the river where they drowned. The people of the village paraded and celebrated their now rat-free town! The mayor, with an abysmal 39% approval rating and a reputation as a rascal, refused to honor their verbal agreement when the Pied Piper showed up at the city hall for his payment. "Surely you knew that we spoke in jest when we agreed to pay the sum of a thousand guilders." "A thousand you promised, a thousand you'll give," said the Piper... "What is done is done, my man," said the Mayor. "It cannot be undone. The rats are gone, you see." "Aye, but I can pipe again," said the Piper. Then he went back into the street and began to pipe a new tune. But this time instead of rats, it was the village children who marched out of their homes to follow him. Down they went to the mountain which had opened for them to pass inside, and then closed again. When we ran for Congress, some of us promised to our voters that we would work with the other side to get things done for the American people. Unfortunately, we allowed ideology and party loyalty to inspire us to break our promise. We were unwilling to "pay the piper." Because of our refusal to pay, we are slowly participating in a history changing race to the bottom. It doesn't seem to trouble us that the word civility sounds like something from our distant past. We should use our precious time in Congress more wisely and ensure future generations that a great nation will still exist. Wouldn't it be great if each of us embraced the words of my all-time favorite poet, Robert Frost? "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

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Main Facts and Life Hacks Facts and Life HacksBuzz South African celebrities who died in 2017 and 2018 7 months ago 11302 views by Julie Kwach Everybody dies, but it is important to remember that the dead live in our memories. Last year, the South African entertainment industry lost a significant number of stars. Below is a list of South African celebrities who died in 2017 and 2018. Death leaves wounds that could last a lifetime, more so if the person was close to you. Unfortunately, at some point, we all go through the same path. So, rather than mourn forever, we can choose to celebrate the lives of those who have gone before us. READ ALSO: South African celebrities who died in 2018. Stars we've lost this year Celebrities who died in 2017 Last year, several stars across the world passed away. Some of the notable names include Della Reese (actor, Touched by an Angel), Hugh Hefner (founder of Playboy magazine) and David Rockefeller (Rockefeller family). Here in South Africa, we lost musicians, actors, TV hosts, entrepreneurs among others. South African actors and actresses who died in 2017 The film industry lost some top talents and legends in 2017. Below are some of the Mzansi actors who died in 2017. Joe Mafela Joe was a South African actor whose career began at the age of 22. He was also a musician, producer, and movie writer. He had roles in several South African television series, soaps, and movies. His breakthrough came from his role as Sdumo in the comedy series 'Sgudi 'Snaysi which was in Zulu. He went on to produce television programs under his production company Penguin Films and sometimes cast himself for roles in them. The veteran South African actor passed away after a car accident on the 18th of March. The Joe Mafela accident scene was on M1 North next to a construction zone. Jabu Kubheka Famous for his role as Gunman in the SABC1 drama series Yizo Yizo, Jabu Kubheka was a South African actor who starred in various television programs. The actor had roles in many televisions series including the SABC 1 drama Zone 14, A Place Called Home, Jacobs Cross, and Skhumba. He also had featured in various soaps including Generations, Zabalaza and Gold Diggers. Jabu was found dead in his home in June 2017. Mandla Hlatshwayo Mandla was a South African actor known for his role as Siphiwe Phosa in the hit TV series Generations. The actor's breakthrough came after his starring role in SABC's Soul City 2. He was also a DJ going by the name DJ Mandla, and he released his first album in 2006 known as Jozi Nights Volume 1. Mandla was fatally shot in May 2017, during a robbery outside Meli pub in Soweto as reported by BBC on the 15th May. Iko Mash Iko was a South African stylist, makeup artist, and actor who died after a long battle with cancer on the 21st of July, 2017. He was well known in celebrity circles for his styling prowess, and he played a transgender make up artist on television series Rhythm city. 7de Laan actor dies Greg Melvill-Smith, famous for his role in 7de Laan, as well as in Isidingo, died in 2016. Therefore, he was not in Isidingo June 2017. He died in the hospital while battling a serious illness. He is not the only 7de Laan cast member who has died as two others passed away recently. Shareen Swart, a producer and actress on the show died on October 29, 2018 after a long battle with cancer. Below is a list of South African actresses who died in 2017 Michelle Molatlou Michelle was a former beauty queen who went on to be a television show host and actress. She hosted the magazine show Mamepe on SABC 2 and acted in various television productions including In the name of love, Kgalelo Pelo and Generations; Legacy. Michelle succumbed to cervical cancer at the National Hospital in Bloemfontein. She died on the 19th December 2017 surrounded by friends and family. Mary Makgatho Mary was a veteran actress who was best known for her roles in Generations, Yizo Yizo, and most recently Ekasi: Our Stories. She died after developing complications from injuries resulting from a fall. Other South African celebrities who died in 2017 Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri Raymond, popularly known as Ray Phiri, was a South African jazz and fusion artist famous for his role in Graceland. The musician died on the 12th July, 2017, aged 70 after a two-month battle with lung cancer. Lindani Bekwa Lindani was a popular South African Radio personality. He started his career at Weneme FM as an intern in 1995 where he gained respect and admiration from people. He later worked at SABC radio before resigning to become the Mercantile Hospital spokesperson in 2004. He rejoined Weneme FM in 2006 and continued where he left off. The Lindani Bekwa death announcement brought sorrow to his fans and South Africa in general. His friends eulogized him as a dreamer who worked hard to make his dreams come true and who loved what he did. The radio host died in March 2017 after a long illness which kept him in and out of the hospital. Matlakala Ramathoka Popular gospel singer Matlakala Ramathoka died aged 43 in March 2017 after complaining of flu and chest pains. The singer was part of the Matlakala and the Comforters and the Musole Tumelo groups. She is famous for songs such as Dintwa Ditekising, Kgalemela Lefatshe, and Madi Matsogong. The singer had just completed recording her album Emanuel at the time of her death. Matlakala dead or alive will forever remain a memorable part of the South African gospel industry. Thandi Klaasen The legendary jazz musician Thandi Klaasen died on the 15th of January, 2017. Media outlets report that she was battling pancreatic cancer which is believed to be the cause of her death. Dumisani Masilela The Rhythm City actor was shot dead after a hijacking in Tembisa. He was rushed to hospital but died while undergoing surgery. The 29-year-old actor had recently got married. His wife was devastated by his death as their marriage had only lasted a few months according to family spokesperson Mpumi Phillips. South African celebrities who died recently Although the year 2018 is not yet over, South Africa has already suffered significant losses. Celebrity deaths today are on the rise due to the increasing number of diseases and the cancer menace. Here is a list of celebrities recently deceased. Winnie Mandela Mama Winnie's death came as a shock to many as she had been pictured earlier at her granddaughter's Good Friday celebration. Veteran anti-apartheid activist passed away on April 2, 2018, after a battle with an illness. Winnie inspired a generation of African women, many of whom honored her by wearing black and using the hashtag AllBlackWothADoek. Sandy Mokwena Actor Sandy Mokwena, who is known for playing Bra Eddie on eTVs Scandal, passed away on on Wednesday the 25th of January, 2018 due to natural causes. The actor also had roles in several television productions. His death shocked his family as it came after a short illness. On that day, it was reported that the South African actor died aged 68. Hugh Masekela The death of Hugh Masekela gave a huge blow to the South African jazz industry. Famously known as the father of South African Jazz, Hugh was a trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer, and composer. He is famous for hit songs such as Soweto Blues and Bring Him Back Home. The musician died due to prostate cancer on the 23rd of January, 2018. Chris Matshaba The radio personality succumbed to cancer on the 11th of February, 2018 just six months before his 40th birthday. Kabelo Mosito, the family spokesman, told Tshisa Live that the actor continued to smile despite his battle. David Phetoe Generations actor dies aged 85 was the breaking news on the 1st day of February this year. David was a veteran actor best known for his role as Paul Moroka on popular soap, Generations. Eugene Phetoe, his son, said in an interview that the actor had been ill and was in the hospital when he died on the afternoon of the 1st of February, 2018. Jabulani Tsambo Popularly known by his hip-hop name, Hip Hop Pantasula, HHP died on October 24th, 2018. The rapper was found dead in his Johannesburg home earlier in the day. His friend and rapper Khuli Chana said that HHP's death came as a shock to his friends and family. It was an unbelievable sadness. Khanyi Mbau dies? Well, fortunately, Khanyi Mbau, is not dead. The 32-year-old actress suffered a scare during cosmetic surgery in 2017 but did not die. She currently plays Dinekile aka Lady Die on SABC1 soap Uzalo. READ ALSO: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: the dark side of the legend revealed Death is the ultimate ending for all human beings. The South African celebrities who died in 2017 and 2018 probably did not see it coming. It is, therefore, important to honor the loved ones while they are still alive. 5 more babies died of infection at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital Black Coffee new album Nasty C new album 2018 4 Mzansi celebs that prove being humble and real gets you places khune generations teasers pearl monama instagram sjava umqhele best countries to immigrate to Apartheid education better than today? South Africans demand change

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Act now or forever play global catch up on clean technology: Report Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, listen to introductions as they announce a $700 million investment over the next five years to grow Canada's clean technology industry in Montreal on January 18, 2018. Canada's share of the fastest growing industry in the world has been shrinking over the last decade -- and a new report says it's time to step it up or miss out on a trillion-dollar opportunity. The Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute report -- to be released today in Vancouver at the Globe Forum Leadership Summit for Sustainable Business -- says clean technology will be a $2.2-trillion industry worldwide by 2022, with an estimated $3.6 trillion of investment up for grabs globally between now and 2030.Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS Mia Rabson PMN Business OTTAWA - Canada's share of the fastest growing industry in the world has been shrinking over the last decade - and a new report says it's time to step it up or miss out on a trillion-dollar opportunity. The Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute report - to be released today in Vancouver at the Globe Forum Leadership Summit for Sustainable Business - says clean technology will be a $2.2-trillion industry worldwide by 2022, with an estimated $3.6 trillion of investment up for grabs globally between now and 2030. However, Canada's market share in the global clean tech industry has fallen 12 per cent in the last decade, and will continue to contract without a solid, long-term commitment to growing the industry, said institute co-chair Stewart Elgie, a professor of law and economics at the University of Ottawa. "Clean innovation is the big global economic prize in the next decade that leading nations are pursuing around the world," Elgie said. "If Canada wants to win that race, we've got to raise our game." However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane. There also needs to be significant government funding available to help get good Canadian ideas through the development stage and to market. Canada does well at coming up with ideas and making them work, Elgie said, but it's not so good at commercializing those ideas and scaling up production, often because of a lack of available capital. The private sector is often still leery about clean technology, because it's all very new. "The truth of it is every major commercial technology of the last century has involved significant public investment and public support," Elgie said. "Every one - even the oilsands, which has had billions of dollars in public investment before it ultimately became commercially viable and the private sector ran with it." Last year, Canada jumped three spots to number four on the Global Clean Tech Innovation Index, a measure of where the best clean technology ideas are expected to come from in the next decade. But if Canada can't provide the financial help to get those good ideas out, it will miss out on huge opportunities, he warned. Of course, not everybody sees the Liberal government's policies - particularly the carbon price - as helpful. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, new Ontario counterpart Doug Ford and Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta's United Conservatives, have all promised to cancel or roll back carbon pricing if elected. They call carbon pricing a tax that will make Canada uncompetitive, particularly up against a U.S. that doesn't have a similar burden. Kenney, for one, has called it a "massive tax on everything" and "a massive wealth distribution scheme requiring a massive bureaucracy to administer." The report says encouraging clean innovation requires government both pushing and pulling industry along. That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions. - follow @mrabson on Twitter

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Guides and Information on France Subscriber Profile Life in France The latest news and views from France written in English Womens World Cup 2019 Snow and Ice: 19 Departments of North and East on Orange Alert 2nd March 2018 2nd March 2018 spanner44Leave a Comment on Snow and Ice: 19 Departments of North and East on Orange Alert As the situation improves in the south of France, Meteo France has place 19 departments in the North and east on orange alert for snow and ice storms Snow and ice storm on Friday 2 March to the north and east of France while the situation has improved in the Southeast and especially the Herault . 19 departments were on orange alert this Friday at 6am. The west of the Hauts-de-France suffered in the middle of the night "some weak and scattered freezing precipitation," according to Meteo France. BFMTV: Neige et verglas: 19 départements toujours en vigilance orange - STEPHANE POLVENT (@stefrossiyellow) March 2, 2018 The rains "will remain weak" but "freezing", warns the meteorological service. In the South, the trend was clearly improving with a spectacular warmth. Motorists evacuated from A75 and A9 Thursday, in the middle of the afternoon, all the passengers of vehicles blocked since the day before in Herault on the A75 and A9 motorways, around Montpellier, had been evacuated: they were able to take again the road in the majority of the cases . Others were taken care of by coaches and taken to an operations center of Vinci Autoroutes. Crossing points had been opened to allow vehicles to pass on the central reservation of the highway and to travel in the other direction. The A9 was reopened to all vehicles in both directions of traffic, announced in the evening Smart Bison. On the A750 motorway, which connects Montpellier to the A75 (Béziers-Clermont-Ferrand), traffic was also restored in the early evening. However, nearly 240 people were to be accommodated in the night from Thursday to Friday in the four facilities made available for the castaways of the road by the City of Montpellier. At 9.30am Thursday, nearly 2,000 cars and their passengers were still blocked on these highways after spending the night. On the social networks, motorists exasperated by the situation tweeted: "Is it normal and that the only people who come to take news and offer food are motorists? We are stuck in the same place since 3.30pm! Do you realise? " In the department, about 2000 other "shipwrecked" were rescued in the evening of Wednesday and overnight and hosted in various centers, the majority of which were emptying Thursday night. "Some users were stuck in their vehicle more than ten hours, said Mahamadou Diarra, cabinet director of the prefect of Herault to AFP. We can not minimize the distress with which some have passed. "However," he continued, "we must bear in mind the quite exceptional character of the snowy episode we are going through, since for thirty years the Hérault had never experienced such an episode and did not had never been placed on red alert for snow. This exceeded the forecasts that were forwarded to us ". For a spokesman for Vinci, the situation was compounded by "the irresponsible attitude of heavyweights who pledged on the A9 Wednesday despite the ban, without winter equipment." "When several snow removal vehicles intervened, some heavy trucks tried to sneak up and found themselves in the way, hindering snow removal and the services. So indeed, we had a lack of civility on the part of some truck drivers, "added Diarra. The prefect decided to maintain the Hérault truck traffic ban until further notice, with the exception of heavy goods vehicles traveling the A75 north to Millau or Clermont-Ferrand. 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Published on CHCOC () Home > Pay-Related Legislative Changes in the National Defense Authorization Act, FY 2014 Pay-Related Legislative Changes in the National Defense Authorization Act, FY 2014 CPM 2014-04 MEMORANDUM FOR: Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies Katherine Archuleta Director This is to inform you of three legislative extensions affecting Federal employee pay and certain benefits. The changes resulting from the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66, December 26, 2013) ("the Act") are summarized below. Section 611 - Reserve Income Replacement Program Section 611(8) amends 37 U.S.C. 910(g) to extend the expiration date for the Reserve Income Replacement Program from December 31, 2013, to December 31, 2014. The Reserve Income Replacement Program is administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) and provides income replacement payments for certain reserve component members experiencing extended and frequent mobilization for active duty service. (This amendment does not affect the reservist differential authority under 5 U.S.C. 5538, which is a separate program for Federal employees. A Federal employee who is entitled to a reservist differential may not receive payments under 37 U.S.C. 910 for the same period. Additional information on reservist differential is found at .) Section 1101 - 1-Year Extension of Authority to Waive Pay Limitations for Certain Federal Civilian Employees Working Overseas Effective January 1, 2014, section 1101 extends to calendar year 2014 the authority provided in section 1101 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417, October 14, 2008), as amended, for the head of an agency to waive the normally applicable premium pay cap established in 5 U.S.C. 5547. This waiver authority in 2014 applies to certain civilian employees who perform qualifying work while in an overseas location that (1) is in the area of responsibility of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) or (2) was formerly in the CENTCOM area of responsibility but has been moved to the area of responsibility of the Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). Based on the operation of current law, the annual limitation on basic pay and premium pay allowed under the waiver authority in calendar year 2014 will increase to $233,000 which is the annual salary rate for the Vice President in 2014 under 3 U.S.C. 104. Section 1101(d) of Public Law 110-417 continues to provide the Director of OPM with the discretion to issue regulations for this waiver authority. OPM does not currently plan to issue regulations. However, each agency should establish policies for using this waiver authority if it has covered employees. To ensure agencies apply this discretionary authority consistently, we have developed the attached summary of key elements agencies should include in their policies implementing the waiver authority. The attached summary includes additional information on employee coverage, approval criteria, and special instructions on applying the waiver authority to employees working in Iraq. Section 1102 - 1-Year Extension of Discretionary Authority to Grant Allowances, Benefits, and Gratuities to Personnel on Official Duty in a Combat Zone Section 1102 amends section 1603(a)(2) of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 109-234, June 15, 2006), as added by section 1102 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2009 (Public Law 110-417, October 14, 2008) and amended by section 1112 of the NDAA for FY 2012 (Public Law 112-81, December 31, 2011) and section 1104 of the NDAA for FY 2013 (Public Law 112-239, January 2, 2013). Section 1102 grants the head of an agency the discretionary authority until the end of fiscal year 2015 (i.e., September 30, 2015), to provide an individual employed by, or assigned or detailed to, such agency, allowances, benefits, and gratuities comparable to those provided by the Secretary of State to members of the Foreign Service under section 413 and chapter 9 of title I of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. The employee must be on official duty in Pakistan or a combat zone, as defined by section 112(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Agency headquarters-level human resources offices may contact OPM at . Employees should contact their agency human resources office for further information on this memo. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers Human Resources Directors 2014_Legislative_Changes_Attachment.pdf

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John Deere Classic: Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa To Attack TPC Deere Run Filed Morikawa, John Deere Classic, Mark Immelman, Norm Elrod, TPC Deere Run, Viktor Hovland (CBS Chicago/CBS Local) - The PGA Tour rolls into TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois for the 2019 John Deere Classic. It's the last stop before The Open Championship, the season's fourth and final major. While many of the Tour's biggest names chose to rest this week (or play in the Scottish Open), some of the game's rising stars will tee it up. This is, after all, a PGA Tour event, with a $6 million purse and the usual allotment of FedExCup points. Also up for grabs is a berth in the upcoming major. As 2013 winner Jordan Spieth can attest to, a major invite can change the course of a career. While Spieth didn't make the trip to Silvis, Illinois, the field does feature multiple past winners. Among them are 2018 champion Michael Kim, who set a tournament record of 257 en route to his first ever PGA Tour win. He'll look to defend his title against past champions - and current contenders - like Ryan Moore (2016), Brian Harman (2014) and Zach Johnson (2012). Jonathan Byrd (2007) and John Senden (2006) will also attempt to relive past glories. >>WATCH: The John Deere Classic Live Stream The stage is also set for the new generation of rising stars, including Michael Wolff, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland. Wolff secured his first PGA Tour win at the 3M Open last week with a long eagle putt on the final hole. Morikawa, who lipped out on his eagle putt, had to settle for birdie and a second-place tie. Hovland has been sniffing around the top 10 since the U.S. Open a month ago, but is still hasn't found it. "They're favorites and they're dark horses, because of their current stature in the game," as CBS Sports golf analyst Mark Immelman recently observed of the young trio. "These guys showed their skill over the last few weeks," he went on. "I feel like they're fresh. I feel like they're energetic. I feel like they're full of confidence." That enthusiasm, combined with efficient shot-making, can lead to low scores at TPC Deere Run. Kim showed that last year with his course record 257 (an astounding 27-under par), beating Steve Stricker's 2010 score by one stroke. Bryson DeChambeau's 266 (18-under) finish in 2017 was the course's highest winning mark in over a decade, so it will take a low score to win again this week. TPC Deere Run confers certain advantages upon players. "A number of the holes bend from left to right," Immelman notes. "It favors a golfer who can move the ball in that direction." The greens are generally soft and receptive, and the rough isn't overly punitive. "It's a really good design," even if it tends to yield lots of birdies. >>READ: John Deere Classic: TPC Deere Run 'A Good, Straight-Forward Golf Course' TPC Deere Run offers a few challenges as well, with elevation changes and demanding fairways. The par-4 15th, named 'Coaltown' (every hole has a name), is one of the courses more challenging. It measures a tight 456 yards to a thin green flanked by sand and trees. Following that is the par-3 16th hole ('Mother Earth') at a comparatively short 153 yards. But it's green is situated on a rocky bluff, guarded by large bunkers and a 40-foot drop to the Rock River. Still, as Immelman sums up, "if you can hit the ball a long way and peel it from left to right, you can take advantage." TPC Deere Run is full of birdie opportunities. "You have to get out there with the mindset of putting the ball in play off the tee, going ahead and attacking some of the get-able hole locations. And then you have to make putts, it's a simple as that." In the week before The Open Championship, with many of the game's top-ranked players already over in Europe, the John Deere Classic sports a field led by hungry unknowns. And the list of favorites reflect that. Viktor Hovland (18-1) Hovland has yet to finish in the top 10 in any of his PGA Tour events, but it's only a matter of time before that changes. The 21-year-old turned pro just after his T12 finish at the U.S. Open (as the low amateur), and has since managed a T54 at the Travelers Championship and a T13 at both the Rocket Mortgage Classic and 3M Open. Hovland has shown the ability to hit fairways and greens in his limited Tour history. His accuracy and distance will help keep him on the leaderboard at the John Deere. Collin Morikawa (20-1) The 22-year-old is coming off a T2 finish at the 3M Open - earning him a special temporary PGA Tour membership though the end of the season - and had a chance to win it at the end. Morikawa has a slightly longer history than Hovland, with a T14 at the Canadian Open his best prior finish. He's a solid ball-striker, with a maturity and comfort level beyond his years. Sungjae Im (20-1) At 62nd in the world, Sungjae Im is among the more highly ranked players in the tournament. He continues a busy season, which has seen just three weeks off since January. The results are starting to show, with a seventh place at the Canadian Open, T4 at the Valspar Championship, T3 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and T7 at the Phoenix Open. He's already shown flashes of his dominance on the Web.com Tour last year, and this could be the week he gets that first PGA Tour win.

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Deployed Dad Gives Son The Surprise Of A Lifetime During Taekwondo Practice Audrey Conklin Reporter A deployed father of six gave his youngest son, Luca, the surprise of a lifetime Monday. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Rob Cesternino, who had been serving a 10-month deployment with the Tennessee National Guard in Kuwait, Jordan, and southern Syria since May of 2018, arranged to surprise his nine-year-old son four days before he was expected home, WSMV News reports. Cesternino says he's talked to Luca every two weeks since being deployed. At Luca's taekwondo practice session Monday night, the nine-year-old was told he would be sparring with three different instructors while blindfolded. What he didn't know was that while he was sparring with the third instructor, his dad would jump in and take the instructor's place. When Cesternino entered the match, Luca continued to punch in the direction of his dad until Cesternino spoke and the realization suddenly came to him. In the video, Luca rips off his blindfold and throws his arms around Cesternino. "You were such a big boy when I was gone. I'm so proud of you," Cesternino told Luca, according to WSMV. "We don't give enough thought to how tough it is on the families we leave behind." Cesternino's five other children are older and live away from home. His oldest daughter's enlistment in the U.S. Air Force ends in May. Rob and Luca Cesternino/ YouTube/ Lebanon Democrat "She's coming back home," Cesternino said in a video by Lebanon Democrat. "She's going to school in Knoxville [to] finish her degree." Cesternino went on to explain that his daughter works in diagnostic imagery, or radiology, at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He also has a son who was in the Coast Guard and a son who was in the Navy. "We're a military family," he continued. "My family has served every single generation dating back to WWI. It's just expected in my family. I tell people the military's a family business . . . . It's just expected that you wear the uniform of your country. Again, you don't have to make it a career. My oldest son wasn't into picking up a rifle, so he joined the Coast Guard, and he learned to clean up oil spills. The service - it's important." Tags : military families united states military us army viral video Audrey Conklin Follow Audrey on Twitter

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Once again, on 'environmental catastrophism': A reply to Sam Gindin. Ian Angus says 'environmental catastrophism' is a red herring. The real issue is whether socialists should give high priority to resisting capitalism's war on the planet. by Ian Angus Last year in Monthly Review, I debated Eddie Yuen, an anarchist who believes it is a mistake for radicals to focus on telling the truth about the global environmental crisis, because "awareness of climate crisis does not necessarily lead to increased political engagement." Not only can such awareness lead to apathy, he wrote, but "environmental catastrophism is very likely to be mobilized by economic and national elites to reinforce existing inequalities and expand enclosures, commodification, and militarization."[1] I never expected to hear similar arguments from a Marxist, much less one I respect as much as Sam Gindin, a long time leader of the labor movement in Canada who is now an adjunct professor at York University and co-author of the Deutscher-prize winning book The Making of Global Capitalism. But Gindin has indeed made a very similar argument, in a recent Jacobin article, "Unmaking Global Capitalism," and in a subsequent exchange with Vancouver ecosocialist Brad Hornick in Rabble.[2] In his Jacobin article, Gindin issues a particularly strong warning against "environmental catastrophism," which he characterizes as "declarations that the end of the planet is only decades away if capitalism isn't radically changed now." He also calls such declarations "fearmongering," and "crisis-mongering as a mechanism for overcoming popular passivity." Challenged by Hornick to answer, "Is there or is there not a crisis?" Gindin replies, "If it is clear the world is going to end in 20 years, we should say so" - but then he immediately warns again that we should not "purposely exaggerate the possible timing of that end in the false hope that this will help mobilize people." Like Yuen, Gindin warns that "environmental catastrophism ... may just reinforce a sense that we are doomed and can't really do anything about it ... [or] encourage people to jump aboard illusory market-based 'solutions'." In my Monthly Review articles, I showed that there is simply no evidence for, and a wealth of evidence against, the claim that talking about environmental crises causes apathy or strengthens the right. Rather than repeat those arguments, I want to raise three questions about the supposed problem of "environmental catastrophism," which Gindin evidently believes is a real problem in the left today. 1. Does anyone on the left actually claim that the end of the world is 20 years (or even a few decades) away? Ecosocialists and other environmental activists frequently discuss projections made by scientists about how long current CO2 emission levels can continue without causing tipping points between, as the noted British climate scientist Kevin Anderson puts it, dangerous climate change and extremely dangerous climate change. The fight to build a better world will become much more difficult if such thresholds are crossed, so it is important for us to know when they may occur, and what their physical and social impacts might be. But to my knowledge no one - literally no one - says the world will end if we don't radically change capitalism by then. We've come to expect such misrepresentation from right-wing climate change deniers - the people who invented the label "environmental catastrophism" as an insult - but not from serious radical scholars. 2. Is anyone on the left purposely exaggerating the crisis in order to overcome mass passivity? As we've seen, some on the left argue that the public can't handle the truth about the environmental crisis. They say we should temper our message lest we frighten people into apathy or conservatism. Most ecosocialists and other green lefts take exactly the opposite approach. The social and ecological revolution we envisage requires decisive action by a knowledgeable majority, so it is our duty to get the facts out to the broadest possible audience. As the great socialist ecologist Barry Commoner wrote: "I have chosen to speak out about the scientific evidence of the origins of the environmental crisis; the alternative courses of action that might resolve it; and the right of the public - rather than propagandists or scientists - to make that choice. This was my duty to science, to the people whom science must serve, and to the survival of a civilized society."[3] We tell the truth as best we can, but climate change is a complex subject, so we may not always do this as well as we should. If Sam Gindin disagrees with what we write, I hope he will tell us how to improve. But there is no justification for impugning the motives of radicals who are seriously trying to translate scientific findings into popular articles and action programs. 3. Should the fight against climate change be a priority for socialists today? This is the most important question. For many on the right and a few on the left, accusations of "climate catastrophism" are code for "climate change isn't very important." I hope that isn't Gindin's view, but his articles are not clear. The closest thing to a mass environmental movement in North America today is the fight against the extraction, transportation and use of fossil fuels. Across the United States, anti-fracking protests have mushroomed, and the fossil fuel divestiture campaign has won significant support on many campuses. In Canada, campaigns against pipelines and tar sands exploitation have mobilized tens of thousands in meetings, rallies and marches, won legal decisions and a municipal referendum, and have helped many to better understand the anti-environmental nature of the profit system. These campaigns are explicitly connected to a host of critical social issues, including internal colonialism and indigenous rights, public health, food and water safety - and, of course, to global warming. So I'm surprised that Gindin doesn't say one word about those campaigns, let alone urge socialists to take part. Instead, he tells us to "frame the issue of the environment" by linking it a list of progressive concerns that he oddly calls "a broader struggle," although none of them is currently the focus of any significant movement at all. Movements such as the fight against pipelines, fracking, and tar sands are responding to a global process that, as John Bellamy Foster recently wrote, "is progressively erasing previous distinctions between workplace exploitation and environmental degradation - as capitalism universally undermines all real-material conditions of production."[4] Rather than trying to reframe these movements to fit a socialist-business-as-usual mold, socialists should celebrate and build them - and learn from them. It is only by building actual movements for concrete objectives like stopping pipelines and fracking and coal mining that millions of people can come to understand the need for broad social change - and it is only by participating in such movements that socialists can develop and promote a credible program for 21st century socialism. If we believe that we have exclusive possession of the revealed word - or if we act as if we do - we will be irrelevant to the real movement, which will develop in directions and ways that we cannot predict. Although he says that "we face a grave environmental crisis," Gindin doesn't seem to agree that in our time every serious socialist must be an active environmentalist - that socialists must be ecosocialists. Indeed he seems to counterpose socialism and environmental activism, asserting that what he calls "permanent protest" is a distraction that "replaces the politics of transformative change." If the environmental crisis is as serious as the best science says, then a "politics of transformative change" that doesn't place a high priority on resisting capitalism's war on the planet will be unable to carry through any serious change at all. There is much in Sam Gindin's articles that I agree with, and I'm pleased that he is participating in the ongoing discussion on how to challenge capitalism in a time when the organized left is weak. I'm disappointed that he appears not to grasp the significance of the global environmental crisis for socialist politics and strategy. I hope he now understands that "environmental catastrophism" is a red herring that doesn't contribute to serious discussion within the left. Above all, because I respect his many contributions to struggles for social justice, I look forward to seeing him on the front lines of this battle as well. Ian Angus is editor of the ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism, and co-author of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket, 2011) [1] Ian Angus, "The myth of 'environmental catastrophism'" Monthly Review, September 2013; Eddie Yuen, "Reply to The myth of 'environmental catastrophism'" Monthly Review, December, 2013; Ian Angus, "A reply to Eddie Yuen." Monthly Review, December, 2013. [2] Sam Gindin, "Unmaking global capitalism" Jacobin, June 2014; Brad Hornick, "On the environmental question, Sam Gindin has got in wrong" Rabble, July 3, 2014; Sam Gindin, "Reply to Hornick: If only..." Rabble, July 4, 2014. All three articles have been republished in The Bullet. [3] Barry Commoner. "Reply to Ehrlich and Holdren." Environment, April 1972. [4] John Bellamy Foster. "The Epochal Crisis" Monthly Review, October 2013 The real environmental problem is catastrophe, not 'catastrophism' Environmental catastrophism: Sam Gindin responds On environment, Sam Gindin gets it wrong Again and again, capitalism fouls things up Posted in Capitalism, Ecosocialism, Featured, Movement Building Ian Angus, Sam Gindin Trying to make environmentalism = population control 4 Responses to Once again, on 'environmental catastrophism': A reply to Sam Gindin. Douglas Williams July 15, 2014 at 12:42 pm # This article made me newly-aware of an insidious aspect of all the left-liberal sites that pop up on my FaceBook page. THEY are the "environmental catastrophists" in question. They function as lefty muck-raking yellow journalism while posing for the uninitiated as "The Left." Each attempts to out-do the other in dire prediction, provoking anger while offering no solution. The overall effect may be an intended paralysis: Life will End Tomorrow and the Forces Causing it are Unstoppable, so Let's Give Up. Fact is, the real left is socialist, not liberal, and the catastrophists function as straw men for the right to knock down. Thanks, Ian, for clarifying the role of the real i.e. socialist left. Peter Gose July 16, 2014 at 8:21 pm # The ironic thing about Gindin's position is that he constantly emphasizes our need to be realistic about the left's current weakness. Surely this is almost as much of a downer as being realistic about the severity of the environmental crisis. But it's okay to dwell on the former but not the latter. Go figure. John Sharkey July 22, 2014 at 12:49 pm # One thing us ecosocialists and other assorted environmentalists have to stop doing is claiming that capitalism is destroying the planet. That is 'catastrophism,'not to mention carelessness or perhaps just human arrogance. According to the science (see J Hanson) there have been five major planetary die off events going back to the 'beginning'. None of them destroyed the planet. It took some time, but life always came back just fine. During our anthroprogenic (human induced climate change moment) epoch we may well do serious damage to this thin thin layer of habitable biosphere we call 'nature'. It can all be wiped out, including of course us, and the planet will still go on its merry way and be none the worse off. The climate science is pretty solid on what is causing climate change and on the possible consequences unless we do something about it pretty quick. As we know scientists in general and climate scientist in particular (the ones not working for the petroleum industry) tend to be quite conservative about their work. They're not know to make exaggerated claims about their research. So let's remember that capitalism can do serious damage to us and the environment...but it will not destroy the planet. John Barkdull August 29, 2014 at 12:29 pm # I realize this article was posted some time ago and thus my comment may be untimely. However, when Ian claims that no one asserts that the end of the world is nigh, it might help to clarify what we mean by the end. No, the planet per se won't be destroyed, and it's quite likely that no matter what humans do the insects and microbes, among others, will find a way to survive. Few would dispute this. However, the assertion that human existence is threatened is quite common, including from an author Ian cites, JB Foster. For most of us, the end of the human species is close enough to count as the end of the world. It would certainly count as a catastrophe, especially when one ponders the probable violence and disruption that would accompany the process of population reduction from more than 7 billion to zero. I suspect that Gindin and others have in mind something like that (or maybe the end of civilization as we know it) rather than the physical extinction of life on the planet. So their objection is to rhetoric that suggests human extinction is threatened within decades, which is a claim not absent among climate activists.

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Associated Press Announces Chinese New Year Celebrations in Las Vegas By CNY in the Desert | Uncategorized | No Comments While Asian tourists visit Las Vegas throughout the year, the period surrounding the lunar new year holiday is a particularly popular time for leisure travel, especially among China's growing middle class. "They want to leave their homes and go travel during holidays," said Jan-Ie Low, who is helping to organize the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fremont Street Experience. She said that according to tradition, if you travel during the new year holiday, "it's a sign that you're going to be doing this the whole year." For the complete Washington Post article please click HERE. LVCVA Announces Las Vegas Spring Festival in Downtown LV The Las Vegas Spring Festival: Chinese New Year in the Desert will host a series of Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean cultural celebrations Feb. 8 - 10 throughout the Fremont Street Experience (FSE), a five-block entertainment complex located in historic downtown Las Vegas, which features Viva Vision. For the complete Press Release, please go to: Fremont Street Experience Announces Las Spring Festival 2013 Celebrate the Year of the Water Snake with Chinese New Year Festivities at Fremont Street Experience Second Annual Chinese New Year in the Desert to Take Place in Downtown Las Vegas Feb. 8-10 LAS VEGAS - Jan. 21, 2013 - Celebrate the Year of the Water Snake as Fremont Street Experience, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and Golden Catalyst present the second annual Chinese New Year in the Desert festival in Downtown Las Vegas from Feb. 8 - 10. Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is known as "Spring Festival" in China, "Tet New Year" in Vietnamese and "Seol-lal" in Korean. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman will kick-off the three-day festival during the opening ceremonies which will feature a live authentic dragon dance by the Las Vegas Lohan School of Shaolin. Throughout the weekend guests will also experience live International Cultural Performances; taste authentic dishes from around the world in the International Vendor Village; watch contestants compete for the chance to be crowned Miss Asian American Pacific Islander USA which will include a Macy*s Fashion Show, Talent Show and interview segment; view stunning parade floats in the McDonald's Las Vegas Spring Festival Parade; and create their own lantern to display on Fremont Street Experience to commemorate the Lunar Lantern Festival. "Last year we hosted the first-ever Chinese New Year festival in Downtown Las Vegas which was a great success," said Jeff Victor, president of Fremont Street Experience. "We are excited to once again host this important holiday and encourage everyone to come downtown for a fun-filled weekend to usher in the Year of the Snake and wish wealth, health and good fortune to all." "Chinese New Year in the Desert will be a three-day cultural party with several new marquee events, making Downtown Las Vegas truly one of the best places for everyone to come together and ring in the Year of the Water Snake," said Jan-Ie Low, of Golden Catalyst. "Las Vegas is excited to usher in Chinese New Year with a variety of cultural amenities, attractions and celebrations," said Michael Goldsmith, vice president of international sales for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. "China is an important market for the destination as it is our number one source of international travel from Asia." Opening Ceremonies - Friday, Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. on the 3rd Street Stage Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman will help usher in the new year by participating in the Opening Ceremonies and ribbon cutting on Friday, Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. on the 3rd Street Stage (next to the D, Four Queens and Fremont). The new year will be greeted with a live authentic dragon dance performed by the Las Vegas Lohan School of Shaolin complete with virtual firecrackers on Viva Vision (the largest video screen in the world measuring 1,500 feet long and suspended 90 feet above the street), an eye painting ceremony and performers dressed in elaborate costumes. International Vendor Village and Cultural Performances Throughout the three-day festival, guests will be taken on a journey around the world as they experience performances from several Asian entertainers on the 3rd Street Stage and visit the International Vendor Village, located on 3rd Street North between Fremont Street and Stewart Avenue, to taste the international flavors from renown food vendors. The International Vendor Village and Cultural Performances will take place on Friday, Feb. 8 from 5-10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10 from noon-9 p.m. To commemorate the Lunar Lantern Festival, which officially ends the Chinese New Year celebrations, primary grade students of Clark County School District will be constructing paper lanterns marked with their "wish" for 2013. The lanterns will then be on display throughout Fremont Street Experience during the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival. Additionally, guests and passersby are invited to stop in at a booth located near the 3rd Street Stage to build their own lantern to display on Fremont Street Experience. The Lunar Lantern Festival is sponsored by St. Jude's Women's Auxiliary Group. Miss Asian American Pacific Islander USA Pageant Throughout the three-day event, several women will compete in the Miss Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) USA Pageant. Contestants will participate in the Macy*s Fashion Show, modeling the latest cutting edge Spring fashion lines from Macy*s, a Talent Show emceed by Ian Ziering from Beverly Hills 90210, and interview segment for the chance to be crowned Miss AAPI USA. The winner will receive a combination of cash and gift prizes with a retail value of $10,000. The First Runner-Up and Second Runner-Up will receive a combination of cash and gift prizes with a retail value of $5,000 and $2,500 respectively. The schedule for the Miss Asian American Pacific Islander Pageant is as follows: *** All events take place on the 3rd Street Stage. Friday, Feb. 8 8 p.m. - Introduction of Miss AAPI USA Contestants 9 p.m. - Macy*s Fashion Show Saturday, Feb. 9 8 p.m. - Talent Show: Miss AAPI USA Contestants 8 p.m. - Interview and Crowning of Miss AAPI USA Contestants Heart Walk Benefitting the American Heart Association On Saturday, Feb. 9 thousands of walkers from all over the valley will step out to support the American Heart Association during the Heart Walk. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at the 3rd Street Stage with the walk taking place from 8:30-10:30 a.m. McDonald's Las Vegas Spring Festival Parade On Sunday, Feb. 10 local businesses and organizations will come together to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year during the McDonald's Las Vegas Spring Festival Parade. Parade participants will showcase their talent and creativity with the most extravagant floats in vibrant colors to commemorate the rich history of the most important holiday of the Asian community. Starting at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Gass Avenue and 4th Street, the McDonald's Las Vegas Spring Festival Parade will travel up 4th Street through Fremont Street Experience and end at the intersection of 4th Street and Ogden Avenue. For a detailed entertainment schedule go to . All entertainment is free and open to the public. About Fremont Street Experience Fremont Street Experience is a five-block entertainment complex located in historic downtown Las Vegas. Fremont Street Experience features Viva Vision, the world's largest video screen which is 1,500 feet long, 90 feet wide and suspended 90 feet above the pedestrian mall. Viva Vision features nightly spectacular light and sounds shows with 12.5 million LED lights and a 550,000-watt sound system. Fremont Street Experience is a one-of-a-kind venue which includes free nightly concerts and entertainment on three stages. With direct pedestrian access to 10 casinos, more than 60 restaurants and specialty retail kiosks, Fremont Street Experience attracts over 17 million annual visitors. Fremont Street Experience can be found online at . Rachel Diehl Preferred Public Relations Las Vegas Lunar New Year: Celebrate the Year of the Pig Celebrate the Year of the Rooster in Las Vegas Jan. 27-29, 2017 Celebrate the Year of the Monkey in Las Vegas Feb. 8 -14, 2016 Westernunion.com Presents the Fourth Annual Las Vegas Spring Festival Parade The Boulevard Mall Celebrates the Year of the Monkey

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" Resource Watch: Using Video Clips in the Classroom | Main | A Teacher's 'If' Poem for Her Students " Student 'Literary Ambassadors' Head Poetry Month Activities By Francesca Duffy on April 4, 2013 5:37 PM We recently wrote about some educators' efforts to keep poetry alive in school amid the myriad instructional demands of the Common Core State Standards. These teachers might get some help this month as various organizations gear up to celebrate National Poetry Month, an initiative that was first introduced by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. According to Scholastic, five "literary ambassadors" from the National Student Poets Program, an initiative of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, will be visiting communities around the country during April in an effort to heighten young people's interest in poetry. The ambassadors were selected from a pool of candidates who had received a national Scholastic Art and Writing Award and showed exceptional promise and dedication to poetry. Scholastic is also featuring poetry activities on its website for teachers to share with their classes, including math poetry puzzles, writing riddles, poetry-writing workshops, a webcast of a poetry reading, an article on creating poetry slideshows for young students in PowerPoint, and a unit on haiku. Meanwhile, mark the calendar for April 18, otherwise known as Poem in Your Pocket Day. The initiative, coordinated by the Academy of American Poets, encourages people to select their favorite poem to carry around and to share with family, friends, and community members. The website includes resources and information on how schools and communities can celebrate the day, such as by sharing poem selections on Twitter using the hashtag #pocketpoem and by browsing the AAP's online poetry library to select and print out poems.

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Associate Monitors Community Engagement Team The Chicago Police Department (CPD) Independent Monitoring Team is responsible for assessing the CPD's and the City of Chicago's (City's) compliance with the required elements of the consent decree. In December 2015, the U.S. Attorney General launched a broad civil rights investigation into the CPD's policing practices. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the results of its investigation in January 2017, finding a longstanding, pervasive "pattern or practice" of civil rights abuses by the CPD.[1] In August 2017, the Office of the Illinois Attorney General (OAG) sued the City in federal court, seeking a consent decree that would address DOJ's findings and recommendations. The case was assigned to Judge Robert M. Dow, Jr. The OAG then sought input from community members and Chicago police officers and negotiated the consent decree with the City. In March 2018, the Parties to the consent decree, the OAG and the City, also entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with "certain community organizations that have established a broad-based community coalition ('Coalition') committed to monitoring, enforcing, and educating the community about" the consent decree.[2] The OAG and the City then sought proposals for an Independent Monitoring Team after posting a draft consent decree on the Chicago Police Consent Decree website.[3] In October 2018, Judge Dow received public feedback on the proposed consent decree through written comments and two days of public fairness hearings. Judge Dow approved and signed the consent decree on January 31, 2019. The consent decree requires actions by the CPD and many other City entities.[4] On March 1, 2019, the effective date of the consent decree, and after a competitive selection process, Judge Dow appointed Ms. Maggie Hickey, a Partner in the Schiff Hardin law firm, as the Independent Monitor. Judge Dow also appointed Judge David H. Coar, Ret., as a special master. As special master, Judge Coar is not a member of the Independent Monitoring Team, but he will "help facilitate dialogue and assist the [OAG], the City, and other stakeholders in resolving issues that could delay progress toward implementation of the consent decree."[5] Both Ms. Hickey, as the Independent Monitor, and Judge Coar, as the special master, will report directly to Judge Dow. As the Monitor, Ms. Hickey leads a team of professionals and consultants from Schiff Hardin and the CNA Institute for Public Research, including subject matter experts, members of the Independent Monitoring Team's Community Engagement Team, and other partners. Our role as the Independent Monitoring Team is to assess the CPD's and the City's compliance with the required elements of the consent decree. Learn more about our team here. [1] DOJ Civil Rights Division and United States Attorney's Office Northern District of Illinois, Investigation of Chicago Police Department (January 13, 2017) at 4, available at . [2] See Memorandum of Agreement Between the Office of the Illinois Attorney General and the City of Chicago and Campbell v. City of Chicago Plaintiffs and Communities United v. City of Chicago Plaintiffs (March 20, 2018), available at . [3] More information about the IMT selection process is available on this website, which the OAG administers. See Independent Monitor, Chicago Police Consent Decree, . Other resources, such as consent decree documents, court filings, and reports, are also available on this website. See Resources, Chicago Police Consent Decree, . [4] The final consent decree is available on the Chicago Police Consent Decree Website. See Consent Decree (January 31, 2019), . [5] About, Chicago Police Consent Decree, . © 2019 Independent Monitoring Team for the Chicago Police Department Consent Decree

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Connect - Everyone can Modified Large Print Easy Read Materials Accessible PDFs Digital Audio Transcription Transcripts and Captioning Tactile Images & Diagrams Sim Specs Accessible documents in the digital age I received a letter from my utility provider the other day in a really small font size, maybe 10 point. There was a message in a slightly larger size (about 14 point) advising the reader of how to get a copy of the document in a larger or accessible format. However, many of us now manage our lives via the internet, from contacting our local council about refuse collections to keeping up-to-date with current affairs. We can fill in a form online in a few mouse clicks, but how does a disabled person interact with this kind of facility? How can they ensure that the websites and apps they are using will be accessible and compatible with the assistive technologies they use? In this blog, we explore the EU Directive implemented on 23rd September 2018 which aims to ensure accessibility for all, including downloadable documents and forms published on public sector websites. The Directive was initially adopted by the EU at the end of 2016, and is a landmark in digital accessibility legislation. It aims to make public sector digital content more accessible for the estimated 80 million Europeans, living with a disability. Documents and forms that can be downloaded from digital platforms also need to meet required standards. Although there are several exemptions: Documents published on websites before 23rd September 2018. Documents that are not essential to the services provided by an organisation. Maps, although directions may be needed if the end-user needs them. Documents from heritage collections, such as scanned manuscripts. Third party content funded and developed by another organisation. It is important to remember that even with these exemptions, it is possible that some organisations may already be breaking the laws set out in the Equality Act 2010 in terms of just how accessible their websites currently are. And even with the possibility of Brexit looming in the not-too-distant future, UK public sector organisations will need to comply with the terms of the new directive, as at the time of writing the UK is still an EU member state. The Further and Higher Education sector is not immune to the new regulations. Many institutions use a VLE or Virtual Learning Environment for file sharing, such as lecture notes, course handbooks and reference materials. As they are public sector bodies in the eyes of the law, they will need to ensure that such documents can be accessed in alternative or accessible formats so that all students can engage fully in their studies. Other public sector organisations include national/regional/local authorities such as local councils or regional assemblies, and any body established specifically to meet the needs of disabled people. In order to meet the diverse needs of a population where one in five UK residents is living with a disability, what can organisations do to ensure that the new accessibility standards are adhered to? There are a range of options public sector bodies can utilise for producing accessible documents which can be uploaded to websites and apps, including: Outsourcing to a specialist transcription company, such as Connect (connecttodesign.co.uk), who will convert the existing files to accessible formats. This can include large print, braille and accessible PDFs. Training staff so that they are able to produce accessible documents in-house. A combination of the above, such as training employees to produce the documents and outsourcing for testing. With reference to website content that is in HTML format, this may not be accessible for screen-reader users. An alternative solution is to provide a downloadable accessible PDF with alt text, enabling the end-user to use their software to 'read' the document. However, preparations need to be made now, as documents produced after 23rd September 2018 are subject to the requirements of the new legislation. With over 25 years' experience of producing documents in accessible formats, Connect is ideally placed to help companies embrace the new regulations. Get in touch to find out how we can support your organisation at . Apple to Introduce Disability Emojis in March 2019 Why make your VLEs Accessible? Assistive Technology and Disabled Students' Allowance Access Arrangements Advice for Teaching Professionals Connect News SENCO Advice Transcription Blogs Connect Design Alvaston Lodge Alvaston Business Park CW5 6PF Connect Design is a trading name of V I Resourcing Limited Copyright © 2018 Connect Jump back up to quick links We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. To find out more, read our Cookie Policy.OkCookie policy

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Air Quality Improving in Many U.S. Cities: Report Even Los Angeles showed lowest smog levels in more than a decade, data found WEDNESDAY, April 25, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Air quality in America's most polluted cities has improved significantly over the past decade, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. Even Los Angeles, famous for its morning smog, is the cleanest it's been in 13 years, the association noted. Santa Fe, N.M. leads the pack, having been ranked as the cleanest city in the nation. Despite progress in reducing the level of smog and soot in the air, the "State of the Air" report warned that unhealthy levels of air pollution still persist around the country. AHA News: Air Pollution Means Pregnant Women Can't Breathe Easy "'State of the Air' shows that we're making real and steady progress in cutting dangerous pollution from the air we breathe," Charles Connor, president and CEO of the American Lung Association, said in an association news release. "We owe this to the ongoing protection of the Clean Air Act. But despite these improvements, America's air quality standards are woefully outdated, and unhealthy levels of air pollution still exist across the nation, putting the health of millions of Americans at stake." In rating the air quality in cities and counties around the country, the lung association takes into account the color-coded Air Quality Index developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which alerts the public about unhealthy air conditions. The report, released Wednesday, also used data collected by the EPA from 2008 to 2010 on ozone and particle pollution. The report found drastic improvements in 18 of the 25 cities most polluted by ozone. Nine out of the top 10 cities most polluted by ozone were in California. Topping the list was Los Angeles, although it showed the lowest smog levels since the report was first published back in 2000. Particle pollution also dropped significantly in 17 of the 25 most polluted cities, including Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. This mix of microscopic bits of ash, soot, diesel exhaust, chemicals, metals and aerosols can lead to early death, heart attacks and strokes. Four cities -- Pittsburgh, San Diego, Philadelphia and Visalia, Calif. -- dropped to their lowest levels of short-term particle pollution on record, the report noted. Birmingham, Ala., Detroit and York, Pa., dropped off the list of the 25 most polluted cities entirely -- a first for all three. The lung association cautioned that much work remains to be done to improve air quality in the United States. Forty percent of Americans, or 127 million people, live in areas where air pollution poses a threat to their health. These people are at greater risk for wheezing and coughing, asthma attacks, heart attacks, and premature death, the report noted. Infants, children, seniors and anyone with lung diseases, heart disease or diabetes are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution. Those with low incomes or jobs that require them to work outside are also at greater risk. The report revealed that 38.5 percent of Americans live in counties that received an "F" for air quality because of unhealthy levels of ozone air pollution, which can cause chronic health problems. Meanwhile, almost 50 million people in the United States live in counties with unhealthy surges in particle pollution levels. Year-round particle pollution threatens another 6 million Americans. The standards set under the Clean Air Act are a driving force behind the improvement in air quality in the United States, according to the lung association. The legislation aims to clean up major sources of air pollution such as coal-fired power plants and diesel engines to reduce the amount of ozone and particle pollution in the air. The EPA estimated that cutting air pollution through this measure would prevent at least 230,000 deaths and save $2 trillion annually by 2020. The report warned, however, that the positive trend in U.S. air quality will not continue if opponents of the Clean Air Act gain the upper hand on Capitol Hill. "We still need to fulfill the promise of clean, healthy air for everyone, and that can only become a reality through the full implementation of the Clean Air Act. The American Lung Association strongly opposes any efforts to weaken, delay, or undermine the protective standards the law provides," said Connor. "The American Lung Association has been leading the fight for clean air for decades, and we are as determined as ever to give every American the clean air they deserve to breathe every day." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on air pollution. SOURCE: American Lung Association, news release, April 25, 2012

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Dauphin County Dauphin County Sheriff's Office Sheriff Nicholas Chimienti Jr. Sheriff's Welcome Message Deputies & Staff License to Carry It is the mission of Dauphin County Sheriff's Office is to safeguard the lives and property of the people we serve, to reduce the incidence and fear of crime, and to enhance public safety. We will strive to develop positive relationships with our diverse communities and improve the quality of life for all community members. Our mandate is to do so by demonstrating our core values and conducting ourselves with the highest ethical standards to maintain the public's confidence and trust. Duty: To uphold our sworn oath to serve and protect, demonstrating courage in the face of danger, and compassion and respect for all people. Honor: To hold ourselves to a higher standard of character and behavior and to do our noble best to bring dignity to the badge that it is our privilege to wear. Integrity: A firm adherence to a code of moral values, trustworthiness, and incorruptibility. Respect: We consider human life worthy of high regard and are committed to equal treatment under the law for all people. We honor life and are committed to the preservation of life as we carry out our sworn duty under the law. To follow Dauphin County Sheriff's Office, click the button below. Follow Dauphin County Sheriff's Office Download the CRIMEWATCH app and follow Dauphin County Sheriff's Office.

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Landi Renzo LPG systems and components CNG systems and components Dual Fuel systems: Diesel + Natural Gas LR Group Download our Landi Renzo Connect App Download our LPG and CNG Filling Station App Home / Questions and Answers Natural gas systems: useful information Find out everything there is to know about LPG and natural gas systems for cars: start saving and cutting pollution right away! What is LPG? LPG stands for Liquid Petroleum Gas. It is a by-product of the refining of crude oil. LPG is a gas at atmospheric pressure and normal ambient temperatures, but it can be liquefied when higher pressure is applied and/or when the temperature is reduced. The LPG used in vehicles is a blend of propane and butane gases with chemical and physical properties that help vehicle performance in terms of power, versatility and engine functioning. The products of its combustion are carbon and nitrogen oxides and unburnt hydrocarbons, in smaller quantities than produced by petrol and diesel-fuelled vehicles, while aromatic hydrocarbons, sulphur dioxide and particulates are absent. The energy content of LPG is 10,000 kcal/kg, while that of petrol is 10,300 kcal/kg. What is Natural Gas? Natural Gas (CH4) is the most ecological fuel of all, and one of the most abundant in nature. It is not obtained through a refinement process, but is an ecological fuel ready to use right from the source. Natural Gas contains no impurities, sulphur, lead compounds or aromatic hydrocarbons, so it produces only very low levels of polluting emissions, with no odour, particulate matter or combustion residues. The chemical composition of Natural Gas produces much less CO2 than other fuels and reduces ozone formation in the atmosphere. The intrinsic properties of Natural Gas make it suitable for use in vehicles with no need for additives that may be harmful to human health. Also, it contains more energy than any other fuel (natural gas = 11,600 kcal/kg; petrol = 10,300 kcal/kg; diesel =10,200 kcal/kg). Another important benefit is that Natural Gas is much easier and more economical to transport than other fuels, because after the initial cost of building a gas pipeline, it is very inexpensive to transport. Unlike other fuels, Natural Gas does not need to be transported in tanker trucks, which produce polluting emissions and contribute to traffic congestion, and therefore it helps reduce accident risk and pollution by heavy vehicle traffic. The Natural Gas pipeline grid is underground, so it does not affect the landscape in the places it passes through. Is it true that LPG-powered vehicles pollute less than petrol-powered ones? Yes, it's true. With LPG, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are reduced by about 10%, while emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and unburnt hydrocarbons (HC) remain largely unchanged, depending on the type of vehicle and on the fuel system installed. LPG fuelled vehicles produce practically no PM 10, one of the principal causes of atmospheric pollution in city centres. LPG fuelling significantly reduces components of exhaust gases for which the law does not yet set any limits, such as, for example, sulphur dioxide (SO2), benzene (C6H6), formaldehyde (HCHO) and PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), highly aggressive carcinogenic substances ("unregulated" pollutants). Using LPG in place of petrol or diesel also reduces the potential for formation of "summer smog", photochemical smog causing ozone (O3) production. Is it true that Natural Gas-powered vehicles pollute less than petrol-powered ones? Yes, it's true. With Natural Gas, CO2 emissions are reduced by about 20%, while emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and unburnt hydrocarbons (HC) remain largely unchanged, depending on the type of vehicle and on the fuel system installed. Natural Gas fuelled vehicles do not produce PM 10, one of the principal causes of atmospheric pollution in city centres. Natural Gas fuelling significantly reduces components of exhaust gases for which the law does not yet set any limits, such as, for example, sulphur dioxide (SO2), benzene (C6H6), formaldehyde (HCHO) and PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), highly aggressive carcinogenic substances ("unregulated" pollutants). Using Natural Gas in place of petrol or diesel also reduces the potential for formation of "summer smog", photochemical smog causing ozone (O3) production. What are the main pollutants emitted by engines that are harmful to health? Engines emit different types of pollutants, depending on the engine type and the fuel used. The main ones include carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) unburnt hydrocarbons (HC), particulate matter (PM10), carbon dioxide (CO2), benzene (C6H6), aldehydes such as formaldehyde (HCHO) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), and sulphur compounds such as sulphur dioxide (SO2) and sulphur trioxide (SO3). Is there any specific legislation regulating vehicle emission levels? Yes, in Europe the reference legislation is Directive 70/220/EEC (as amended and updated by subsequent directives, most recently by 2003/76/EC). According to this Directive, only some of the exhaust substances emitted are subject to restrictions (maximum emission levels in grams per km). "Regulated" pollutants are: carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), unburned hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter (PM). Carbon dioxide (CO2) is "under surveillance" but not "regulated" (the emission level must be measured and reported on the vehicle registration certificate, but a limit has not been set). Environmental benefits related to LPG (3.04) Environmental benefits related to Natural Gas (3.05) Gas-fuelled cars and no-traffic days LPG/Petrol savings: is it true that you can save up to 50% with an LPG-powered car compared to a petrol-powered one? Yes, it's true. The running costs for an LPG-powered vehicle are significantly lower than those for a petrol-fuelled one. NATURAL GAS/Petrol savings: is it true that you can save up to 70% with a Natural Gas-powered car compared to a petrol-powered one? Yes, it's true. The running costs for a Natural Gas-powered vehicle are significantly lower than those for a petrol-fuelled one. No-traffic days and alternating licence plates on city roads: is it true that in the event of such traffic restrictions, gas-fuelled vehicles can travel freely? Generally speaking, yes. However, in the case of no-traffic days or alternating licence plates on the roads, it is advisable to check the issuing order. In almost all cities that impose such traffic restrictions, LPG and Natural Gas fuelled vehicles are recognised as ecological and can travel freely. Which legislation establishes the limit values for ambient air quality according to which restrictions are applied to the use of motor vehicles? Decree no. 60 dated 2 April 2002, transposing: Directive 1999/30/EC on ambient air quality limit values (micrograms per m3) for sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM) and lead (Pb) Directive 2000/69/EC on ambient air quality limit values for benzene (C6H6) and carbon monoxide (CO). Restrictions on the use of motor vehicles are adopted with discretion by individual regions and municipalities. What kind of tank is installed with a Natural Gas system? A Natural Gas fuelling system involves the use of cylindrical tanks of differing capacity, diameter, weight, etc. Where is it installed? The cylindrical tanks are housed in the boot of the vehicle or outside the vehicle, complying with safety distances. Does the installation of Natural Gas tanks require changes to be made to specific car parts, such as the suspensions? No, this is not necessary. Does installation reduce space? This depends on the gas tank system installed. Does installation involve the loss of a passenger seat? The weight of the Natural Gas system is calculated as part of the total load that can be transported by the vehicle (people + luggage). Therefore, the driver must take into account the weight of the system installed when determining the maximum load that can be transported. Should the Natural Gas tank be serviced regularly? Yes, Natural Gas tanks must be tested every five years (calculated from the date stamped on the cylinders) by G.F.B.M. (Gestione Fondo Bombole Gas Naturale); testing is free. Users pay the cost of dismantling and reassembling the tanks. This operation is performed to check the efficiency and condition of the tanks in order to ensure fully safe use of Natural Gas systems on vehicles (Law no. 145 dated 7 June 1990, Presidential Decree n. 404 dated 9 November 1991). What kind of tank is installed with an LPG system? An LPG fuelling system involves the use of two types of tank: cylindrical or doughnut shaped. These two types of tanks are available with different capacity, diameter, weight, etc. When a cylindrical tank is housed in the boot of the car, the load capacity reduces according to its size. Housing a doughnut shaped tank in the place of the spare tyre, instead, safeguards the space available. The cylindrical tank is normally positioned in the boot; the doughnut shaped tank, instead, is normally housed in the place of the spare tyre. Both types can be positioned on the outside of the vehicle in compliance with safety distances. When a cylindrical tank is housed in the boot of the car, the load capacity reduces according to the tank's capacity. Housing a doughnut shaped tank in the place of the spare tyre, instead, safeguards the space available. The spare tyre can be stored in a special bag, or replaced by a tyre repair kit. The weight of the LPG system is calculated as part of the total load that can be transported by the vehicle (people + luggage). Should the LPG tank be serviced regularly? No, LPG tanks do not need to be serviced. LPG tanks must be replaced after 10 years of use. In this regard, it should be noted that the tenth year of use should be understood as commencing: on the date the system was tested, if its installation occurred after the vehicle was first registered; on the date the vehicle was first registered, if it is certified as having been set up with an LPG system right from the start. What cars can be converted to gas? All petrol-fuelled cars, vehicles with carburettor, injection fuelled vehicles and injection fuelled vehicles with catalytic mufflers can be converted to run on gas, whether with an indirect or direct injection system. When having an LPG or Natural Gas system installed on a vehicle, it is advisable to check with a specialised workshop as to which type of system should be installed on the specific vehicle model. Can diesel-fuelled cars can be converted to gas? Yes, the innovative LANDIRENZO DUAL FUEL injection system makes it possible to convert diesel engines into engines that can work with a mixture of diesel and natural gas. This renews diesel engines with new technology that saves money, improves autonomy and cuts polluting emissions significantly. This sophisticated technology may be applied to medium-to-light commercial vehicles with standard conversion kits and to heavy vehicles with special conversion kits. Is it possible or advisable to convert utility vehicles? Modern gas fuel supply systems do not result in significant power loss compared to running on petrol, and therefore it is possible to install LPG and CNG systems even on utility vehicles. Is it possible to transfer a system from one car to another? It is technically possible (if the engine characteristics are similar and allow it), but it is not economically viable as the cost savings resulting from not having to purchase new components are cancelled by the double cost of labour. What condition must the car be in to be able to be converted to gas and function optimally? A vehicle that runs well on petrol and has been kept in good general condition will run well on gas. In order to install an LPG or CNG system on a vehicle, this must be in good general condition; in particular, the ignition system (coils, spark plug wires, spark plugs), the air filter, the lambda probe, the catalyst and the valves must be in good condition. How long does it take to complete installation of a gas system? Installation of an LPG or CNG system normally takes just a few days in a specialised workshop. Is it still possible to run the car on petrol after installing a gas system? Installation of an LPG or CNG system will not affect the vehicle's ability to run on petrol. The driver may decide which fuel to use by simply pressing a changeover button on the dashboard. Today's gas systems are easy to use as they ensure the vehicle always starts up running on petrol and automatically switches to gas after about 15 to 60 seconds, when optimal running parameters have been reached. Installation of a gas system practically doubles the vehicle's autonomy, which can now count on two fuel supplies. Is it preferable to run a new car in before converting it to gas? No. There are no specific contraindications. However, it is worth checking the gas system once the car has been run in. Does Landi Renzo have a network of qualified and authorized installers? Over the years, we have developed a qualified network of Dealers, Authorized Workshops and GAS Specialists, with staff trained and continuously updated on new products and installation techniques by means of technical courses and direct technical assistance, ensuring constant support for the entire network. Moreover, Landi Renzo's Italian Network of Workshops and Dealers has also been certified under ISO 9001 since 2006, and there are plans to extend this certification to the Group's networks in other countries. View the Landi Renzo Network of Workshops Why does it cost more to convert to Natural Gas than to LPG? The higher cost is primarily due to the cost of the high-pressure natural gas tank. As Natural Gas is under considerably higher pressure than LPG (about 200 bar as compared to 15 bar), the safety standards to be met are much higher. Are gas systems safe? Yes, they are safe. Products installed in vehicles in specialised workshops are approved by the Transport Ministry on the basis of European standards. All Landi Renzo products are also tested one by one on the basis of our quality system, which obtained ISO 9001 Certification in 1996 and ISO TS 16949 Certification in 2001, the Quality System specific to the automotive sector involving the application of extremely strict quality standards. Are LPG tanks safe? LPG tanks have always been designed and constructed taking into account the chemical-physical characteristics of the fuel. LPG tanks are built using 3.5mm steel sheets, heat-treated to avoid cracking in case of deformation (caused for example by an accident). The standards governing the construction of the various components are very severe. The tests and trials for tanks and pipes are performed at a pressure of 45 bar, although normally the operating pressure in vehicles never exceeds 20 bar. What is the reference standard for LPG tanks and what security systems are required? LPG tanks are regulated by UN/ECE Regulation no. 67/01, which sets forth the special devices required to ensure maximum safety in every situation (fire, accident, parking in an underground garage, exposure to excessive heat by radiation, etc.). In particular, there is a special multivalve that encloses the following safety systems: A "normally closed" solenoid valve (i.e. closed when it is not powered) interrupts the outgoing flow of gas from the LPG tank when the "key" is not inserted in the panel. This is also an important safety feature since, in the event of an accident, it closes as soon as the engine switches off, even if the "panel" remains on. A fill limit device interrupts LPG supply during filling when 80% of the tank's volume is full. This device, required by law, prevents pressure in the tank from increasing excessively due to external causes, such as overheating (an increase in temperature expands gas; when the gas is enclosed in a sealed environment such as a tank, this expansion creates an increase in internal pressure). A pressure release valve prevents excess pressure from building up inside the tank; in the event of pressure over 27 bar, LPG is released externally in a gradual, controlled manner. This permits restoration of regular working pressure in the LPG tank and eliminates the risk of overpressure. A temperature relief valve releases gas externally in a gradual, controlled manner when the temperature exceeds 120°. Are Natural Gas tanks safe? Natural Gas tanks offer guaranteed safety as they are all subjected to strict tests, both for approval and throughout their lifespan. The particular strength required to endure testing pressures of 300 bar and operating pressures of 220 bar means the cylinders are extremely resistant to impact. Use of thoroughly tested, dependable components, the adoption during installation of all measures aimed at preventing gas leaks in the event of an anomaly in operation, and the intrinsic features of natural gas (high ignition temperature, possibility of ignition only within a certain interval of mixing with air) are all factors that play an important role in ensuring safety. As Natural Gas is lighter than air, in the event of a leak it will not stagnate but be dispersed in the atmosphere without accumulating along the ground. Response has been positive all over the world. Tests conducted on Natural Gas cylinders by the world's most important safety organisations (Bureau Veritas in Norway, EPA in the US, etc.) have yielded very successful results, guaranteeing the utmost dependability for this type of tank. A report by Norway's Bureau Veritas states that the risks linked with use of Natural Gas fuelled vehicles are no greater than those associated with diesel-fuelled vehicles. What are the standards applicable to Natural Gas tanks? Natural Gas tanks are regulated by UN/ECE Regulation R110. In the event of an accident, what happens with an LPG system? Leakage of gas from an LPG system is much less likely than leakage of petrol. Fire tests have demonstrated that in the event of a fire, flame volume is much smaller than in the case of petrol leakage, which tends to spread over the ground around the vehicle. Dozens of crash and fire tests have been conducted, in collaboration with fire fighters, using the most sophisticated equipment to check the efficiency and safety of valves and tanks. In the event of an accident, what happens with a Natural Gas system? Dozens of crash and fire tests have been conducted, in collaboration with fire fighters, using the most sophisticated equipment to check the efficiency and safety of Natural Gas systems and tanks. Natural Gas has the highest flash point of any fuel. It ignites at a temperature of 595°C, twice as high as that of liquid fuels, and combustion concentration (5%) is much higher than that of petrol (1%) and diesel (0.5%); these factors significantly reduce fire risk. Natural Gas has a lower density and specific weight than air, so if it should leak for any reason it will tend to become volatile, rising into the atmosphere rather than stagnating at ground level and accumulating in hazardous concentrations. How can I detect a gas leak? Both LPG and Natural Gas are odorized so that you can detect any leaks. Do gas-fuelled cars require special maintenance? Like any mechanical component subject to wear, natural gas systems need regular maintenance every 20,000 km (which may be performed during regular vehicle maintenance sessions), during which the correct functioning of the various components will be checked. Special attention should be directed to the gas filter (which may need replacing) and the ignition system, which must be kept in perfect condition. What is the difference in performance between an LPG-fuelled vehicle and one run on petrol? An LPG fuelling system causes the following variations: A maximum power loss of about 2-3%, which basically preserves the vehicle's performance. What is the difference in performance between a Natural Gas -fuelled vehicle and one run on petrol? A Natural Gas fuelling system causes the following variations: A maximum power loss of only 10% of maximum torque, resulting at most in a 5-10% drop in speed. What is the autonomy of a car powered by LPG? To calculate the autonomy of a car powered by LPG, you must take into account several factors. Consider 80% of the total tank capacity (for safety reasons, the tank is 80% filled) Consider then that the performance of an LPG-run car is 85% of that of one run on petrol. For example, the autonomy of a car, equipped with a 48l LPG tank, which travels 10 km with 1l of petrol, is calculated as follows: Actual litres of LPG in the tank: 48 * 0.80 = 38.4 l of LPG Performance in km/l of LPG: 10 * 0.85 = 8.5 km/l of GPL Autonomy running on LPG: 38.4 * 8.5 = 326 km Note that the autonomy of the petrol tank remains unchanged and, therefore, the car's autonomy increases significantly as the car can run on both fuels. What is the autonomy of a car powered by Natural Gas? To calculate the autonomy of a car powered by Natural Gas, take into account the following example. A car with a 100-litre cylinder, filled with natural gas at 220 bar, has an autonomy in km approximately equal to the consumption of 30 litres of petrol. How do you calculate the conversion from petrol to LPG in km/l? LPG is purchased in litres. In general, the km/l performance of an LPG-fuelled vehicle corresponds roughly to 85% of the performance of the same vehicle powered by petrol. If a car runs 10 km on 1 litre of petrol, it will run 8.5 km (= 10 x 0.85) on 1 litre of LPG. How do you calculate the conversion from petrol to Natural Gas in km/l? Natural Gas is purchased in kilograms. In general, a vehicle fuelled with 1kg of Natural Gas covers the same number of kilometres as it would cover with 1.7 litres of petrol (1kg CNG = 1.7 l petrol). How is an LPG tank filled? The LPG tank is filled by fastening the pump nozzle to the vehicle's gas filler. This filler differs from country to country (coupling connection in Italy, bayonet in Holland, ACME in the United States, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Belgium). In a modern service station, filling the LPG tank takes the same amount of time as filling the petrol tank. For safety reasons, the multivalve on the tank means that it can only be filled to 80% capacity. How is a Natural Gas tank filled? Natural Gas vehicles are filled by connecting the pump hose with the filling valve on the vehicle, which is normally inside the engine compartment or near the petrol tank filler. There are different types of fillers in different countries. In a modern service station with weighted pumps, refuelling takes 6 to 8 minutes with 80 - 100 litre cylinders. Can gas-powered cars be parked in a garage? Natural Gas-fuelled vehicles can be parked in any kind of garage (underground included). As for parking LPG powered cars, modern vehicles equipped with a system installed after January 2001, and therefore in compliance with Regulations R67/01, can be parked in any kind of garage, but only as low as the first underground level in the event of underground car parks. LPG fuelled vehicles that do not meet UN/ECE Regulation no. 67/01 must continue to refer to the Decree dated 1st February 1986, meaning that they can only park above ground in parking lots not connected with underground levels, unless the owner decides to adapt the installation to European standards (adaptation is quick and inexpensive). Can gas-powered cars be boarded on a ferry or ship? There is no in-force legislation in this regard; regulation is left to the discretion of the shipping companies. According to established practice, it is advisable to inform the shipping company when travelling with a gas-powered vehicle, both at the time of buying the ticket and when boarding. In any case, we recommend you always check with the specific shipping company. Is it safe to drive through tunnels and galleries with gas-powered cars? Yes, there are no restrictions of any kind. My car is automatic: Can I convert it to LPG/CNG? Yes, for sure. The Landi Renzo Gas workshops are properly trained to convert this kind of car and they are therefore able to make the most appropriate setting. My car is equipped with the Start & Stop function: Is the LPG/CNG system affected? No. The system, properly set, keeps the Start & Stop strategy active: The vehicle turns off and reactivates with gas, without problems. A preventive consultation with your Landi Renzo workshop is always useful, anyway You can't find the answers? Contact us Landi Renzo Connect LPG and CNG filling station Landi Renzo Connect App LPG and CNGFilling Station App Write to our Customer Care Headquarters & Branches Landi Renzo S.p.A. Via Nobel, 2 - 42025 Corte Tegge, Cavriago (RE) | Italy F.C. and VAT n. 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Lost lake entrances and the drunken bathtub July 22, 2016 July 22, 2016 / fieldworkblogger This week we welcome Cassandra Cummings to share her adventures in New York State in the gorgeous Adirondacks. Some of the best hiking on the Canadian Shield can be found in the Adirondacks, NY, and I was lucky enough to do 3 summers of field work there. The Adirondacks are an old mountain range that makes up 20% of New York state, and contains more than 3,000 freshwater lakes. They were hit hard in the 80's and 90's by acid rain, and have remained an interesting study site ever since. Taking a sediment core Since the Adirondacks are somewhat isolated, there is an absence of long-term monitoring data. This is where my field of study, paleolimnology, comes in handy. Paleolimnology uses the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics in lake sediment cores to infer their environmental histories. For my fieldwork, I collected sediment cores from 30 lakes throughout the Adirondacks. Collecting a sediment core is similar to putting a straw in a cup of water and putting your thumb on the top; when you pull it out, you take the water with you. In my cores, I examined microscopic algal remains called diatoms. These algal remains are abundant and can survive in the sediments for millennia. They are also incredibly specious and can survive in a wide range of conditions. Their diversity is part of what makes them such a useful indicator species: by determining which species used to exist in a lake, you can infer what the conditions of the lake were like. We may not have been after forest creatures, but they did manage to keep things interesting! We got to see loons attempting to fly (it takes an entire lake's distance just for them to make it out of the water!), a snake catch a frog, and a just-out-of-sight bear. Twice, our hiking paths were flooded by beavers. The first time, we were hiking and came across a surprise pond. At first we thought it was our study site, but it was way too shallow. Then we assumed we lost the path and spent half an hour looking for it, before we saw the next marker across the pond. We tried to go around it, but decided the easiest way would be to cross it. We blew up our inflatable dingy, and two of us crossed the pond with half our stuff. We thought we were well on our way to defeating those rascally beavers, until I was dropped across the pond with the packs and my field mate turned back to pick up our third hiker. Turns out it's hard to cross a pond with one person using one oar in an inflatable dinghy. It moves less in a straight line, and rotates more side to side. She eventually made it back, but it moved like a drunken bathtub in the meantime! Fortunately, the second time beavers flooded the path we were warned in advance. We brought a canoe, and could all make it in one go! The canoe almost fit in the truck. Injuries on our field trips were kept to a minimum. But when we did have one, it was almost always mine! Our first day out the second summer, on a wide, flat path, I managed to twist my ankle and end up out of commission for a week. I also found out the hard way that I'm allergic to deer fly bites. Good thing I'm right handed... When field work ended, we got back to the lab to begin the long, tedious process of diatom identification. After enumerating the diatoms at the top and bottom of the core, we were able to infer how some aspects of the lakes had changed from the 1850's to present. Lakes are warming up faster than they used to each year, leading to changes in the way a lake stratifies (a warmer, less dense layer on top of a colder, denser layer below). Ice is melting earlier in the spring, and forming later in autumn. These changes caused corresponding changes in which diatom species were most successful in a lake, with diatoms that sink slowly becoming more abundant. My project gave insight into the extent of ecological change in algal communities that could be attributed to a 'climate' effect. By understanding how climate change affects lakes, we can begin to understand and interpret changes from lakes that are recovering from multiple stressors. Cassandra Cummings is a 2nd year masters student at UBC, doing a masters in Environmental Planning. In 2014, she completed her masters in biology at Queen's University. She has hiked in the Muskokas, Rocky Mountains, and Central America, but the Adirondacks are still some of her favourite! She is passionate about the environment, enjoys being outdoors and loves to dance. field biology, fieldwork, grad school, paleolimnology, science Adirondacks, field biology, field mishaps, fieldwork, lake sampling, limnology, paleolimnology ← Dirt Oh the places you can swim → One thought on "Lost lake entrances and the drunken bathtub"

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Agenda and draft minutes Wednesday, 6th March, 2019 10:00 Agenda frontsheet PDF 186 KB Agenda reports pack PDF 758 KB Printed draft minutes PDF 61 KB Venue: Committee Rooms 2/3, Civic Offices Angel Street Bridgend CF31 4WB. View directions Contact: Michael Pitman To receive declarations of personal and prejudicial interest (if any) from Members/Officers in accordance with the provisions of the Members' Code of Conduct adopted by Council from 1 September 2008. Approval of Minutes PDF 79 KB To receive for approval the minutes of 10/01/2019 RESOLVED: That the minutes of the meeting of the 10/01/2019 be approved as a true and accurate record. Children's Social Care - University Support Packages for Care Leavers - Policy PDF 98 KB 06.03.19 - University Fees - Appendix 1 - Policy , item 192. PDF 168 KB 06.03.19 - Univ fees - EIA- Appendix 2 , item 192. PDF 193 KB The Group Manager Safeguarding and Quality Assurance presented a report on University Support Packages for Care Leavers including what it provided. She explained that the Cabinet Secretary for Education published the Diamond Report which proposed a costed package of recommendations for the future funding of higher education in Wales. This was agreed by Welsh Government and had been implemented during the academic year of 2018-19 She also explained to Members that the local authority was currently supporting 9 care leavers through University on various courses including teaching, accountancy and a Masters in Youth Justice. She said that this was good news and that this number was estimated to increase over the next few years. A Member commented on the policy stating she was very pleased that the practice that the authority had followed for many years had been put into policy. The Leader welcomed the report suggested that a review be undertaken in the future to ensure that the support was as effective and the process streamlined as it could be. The Group Manager Safeguarding and Quality Assurance agreed that a review of the implementation in 6 - 12 months on the whole process would be beneficial to keep track of the progress of current and new care leavers. The review could also ensure that the policy was making an impact. A Member stated that she welcomed the policy and thought it was a good idea but had a query on the overall cost to the authority. The Corporate Director - Social Services & Wellbeing said that she could provide Members with that data following the meeting. Another Member said that while she agreed it should align with the budget, she did not believe there should be a budget cap on what could be given to the care leavers. The Corporate Director - Social Services & Wellbeing explained to the Member that each person was evaluated on an individual basis but reassured that there was no cap on what could be given. She did agree that there would need to be a monitoring process to ensure there was a responsible amount of money being spent. A Member asked if support was given to students to apply for grants. The Corporate Director - Social Services & Wellbeing explained that there was help with applying for the grants that were available to them as well as locating other information on funding the students can apply for. Another Member endorsed the policy but queried who was responsible for the Equalities Impact Assessment as the previous officer was no longer with the authority. The leader explained that the Consultation Engagement and Equalities Manager would responsible for monitoring. The Cabinet Member Education and Regeneration asked if there were any views on students working part time alongside their studies. The Corporate Director - Social Services & Wellbeing said it was up to the individual and there were no restrictions in place. They would do everything they could to continue advice and support for them so long as work did not ... view the full minutes text for item 192. Urgent Items To consider any other item(s) of business in respect of which notice has been given in accordance with Part 4 (paragraph 4) of the Council Procedure Rules and which the person presiding at the meeting is of the opinion should be reason of special circumstances be transacted at the meeting as a matter of urgency.

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Wanakbori Anandiben Patel Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel lays foundation stone of 800 MW Wanakbori power plant Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today laid the foundation stone for 800 mega watt (MW) super critical coal-based thermal power plant.PTI | Updated: October 16, 2015, 06:54 IST WANAKBORI: Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today laid the foundation stone for 800 mega watt (MW) super critical coal-based thermal power plant, to be set up by BHEL at a cost of Rs 4,465 crore, at Wanakbori in Kheda district. The project is expected to be completed within next three years. This will be the eighth power generation unit at existing Wanakbori thermal power plant having seven units at present, said Gujarat Energy and Finance Minister Saurabh Patel, who was also present during the ceremony here. "After getting Environmental Clearance in 2014, state-run Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL) floated a tender to set up 800 MW unit here. That contract was won by Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL)," said Saurabh Patel in his speech. He further listed key features of this upcoming new plant, including less emission and coal consumption. "Each of the seven existing units at Wanakbori power plant is of 210 MW. This new unit will be of 800 MW. This new unit will use super critical technology that will have very less emission and lesser fuel consumption. It will burn 25 per cent less coal in comparison to other similar size units," Saurabh Patel added. On the occasion of foundation stone laying ceremony, Anandiben Patel assured people that the project will be completed in 2018. "The BJP-government is known for inaugurating all those projects for which we lay foundation stone. I want to assure you that BJP will be in power in 2018 (after 2017 Assembly elections) and I am confident that we will inaugurate this plant, for which we have laid foundation stone today," the Chief Minister said in her address. Tags : Power, Wanakbori, Finance minister, BHEL, Anandiben Patel

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Dominic He is the author of the Amazon Best Seller "What's GREAT about this? How to be Resilient and thrive through disruption and change" Prior to his present vocation, Dominic was a senior operations manager for IBM Australia and VP of Product Development at grapevine Technologies. Dominic has previously contributed as speaker and mentor at the Magic Moments Youth Leadership and Business Summit and as a Senior Leader at Robbins Research International events across Australia since 2003. Since then, their work has help create profound change to more than 130 public and private sector organisations across 11 countries in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. Tens of thousands of individuals have been empowering in the process, many often rating the training they've received as the best they've experienced in their career. In 2006, he and his wife, Sue founded EQ Strategist with a mission to help create empowering workplaces where people wake up each and every day inspired to deliver extraordinary outcomes for their organisations. Dominic Siow is a true optimist. He lives in gratitude each and every day, passionate about creating workplaces that inspire people to be at their very best and where they experience true fulfillment. Connect with Dom

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Oddball Inspiration by Elisa Korenne by Elisa Korenne | Nov 12, 2013 | About The Songs, Blog, Ordinarily-Unsung | 0 comments The following was first published as a guest blog post at The Self Improvement Blog. Some of the most inspiring people I've encountered are some of the oddest. I write songs, stories, and shows about oddballs in history. My subjects are real people who either beat the odds or got off the beaten track. The folks that make it into my songs might have marched to a different drummer, taken the road less traveled, or bucked the mainstream to stand up for their own views. They all make the hard decisions: the ones that are frowned on by their community. And by taking on a role that is different, and therefore threatening, they make more of themselves than they could have otherwise. Oddballs bring me hope when I feel like I am doing it all wrong. Their examples assure me that just because my community may not understand my decision, doesn't mean it isn't the right one for me. Here are some individuals who have inspired me so much that I had to write songs about them. Victoria Woodhull (1838 - 1927) was the first woman to run for President, though nicknamed "Mrs. Satan" by Harper's Weekly. She was also pioneer of the woman's suffrage movement (though hated by her fellow suffagists), the first woman to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, the first woman to start a newspaper, and an advocate of free love, which at that time meant a woman's right to choose to marry and divorce. And her life started in squalor and abuse. Dr. Emanuel Bronner (1908 - 1997) was the creator of the iconic Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. Descended from fourgenerations of German soap-making masters, Emmanuel Bronner came to the United States to find persecution, involuntary commitment to an insane asylum, and poverty. He tried to preach his spirituality-defined by his signature phrase "All-One"- but couldn't find an audience. So, he decided to use the skills of his youth to spread his beliefs. He printed his ideas on soap labels and mixed soap in his bathtub with a broom. Dr Bronner's Magic Soap caught on with the camping and hippie set. Soon, after inauspicious beginnings and based in an unlikely marriage of preaching, soap, and commerce, Dr. Bronner's family company became a natural soap empire. Todd Robbins ( 1958 - present) is a legendary sideshow performer in New York City. My friend-who happens to be a clown-described a show of his where he took a lightbulb, a fork, and a knife onto the stage. He cut the lightbulb into small, bite-sized pieces of metal and glass. Then he put each piece in his mouth, chewed, and swallowed. Though I thought it had to be a trick, Robbins actually consumes lightbulbs. He trained for years to be able to eat them, which involves a lot of chewing. Once I sent him my song inspired by him, Robbins invited me to come see him eat lightbulbs for real. At the show I attended, he ate the lightbulb like an apple. Todd also eats bicycles, swallows swords, and hammers nails into his nostrils. He uses his odd skills to light up the lives of his audiences. I never expected I would find myself in a similar position to the subjects of my songs. I don't eat lightbulbs, I've never made soap, and I don't expect to be running for president any time soon. Then I moved from New York City to New York Mills-a town of 1000 people in rural west-central Minnesota. Immediately, I was the oddball. I had to learn to be the one that everyone stared at, to be the one that didn't fit in. I was lucky to have studied my song subjects so carefully. I used them as inspiration. I got comfortable with my "outsider" identity and reached out to my new community with a self-deprecating sense of humor about my city ways. Soon enough, I became the funny New Yorker. People laughed with me about my increased volume, my propensity to take the Lord's name in vain, and my inability to talk for an hour about the weather before getting to the real purpose of the conversation. Here's my song "Love to Love" about Victoria Woodhull. Today I'm my town's very own New Yorker. And I like it that way. What oddballs have inspired you? Tell me at .

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Georgia, Caucasus Anti-gay militia plans to thwart Tbilisi Pride The Pride event would be the first in the Caucasus but has become yet another target for Georgia's social conservatives. Giorgi Lomsadze Jun 17, 2019 Supporters of a Pride event in Tbilisi demonstrate in front of the government administration building on June 14. (photo: TiflisPride Facebook page) Vigilante groups have called on supporters to disrupt the first-ever LGBTQI pride event from taking place in Tbilisi, and police have said they can not guarantee the safety of its participants. "We will organize ourselves into citizens' brigades... and they will unite in a legion," Levan Vasadze, a millionaire self-styled guardian of traditional values known for his anti-gay vitriol, told a rally on June 16. "Among us are lots of people with military experience, famous athletes, rugby players, wrestlers...[I]f the propagandists of perversion attempt to hold some sort of demonstration, we will break through any police cordon." The threats cast doubt over plans to hold what would be the first LGBTQI Pride event in the Caucasus, planned as series of events between June 18 and 23 that will culminate in what the organizers call a "March of Dignity." Vashadze - often called a "knight" after having received the honor from Georgia's royal family - also warned Western diplomats and activists not to get involved in the looming confrontation. "We've heard that planeloads of foreign sodomites are coming here," he said. "Even if the ambassadors from the whole world come whining to this government, we will not let them go ahead with this rally," he said. The organizers of Tbilisi Pride called on police to respond to the threats and provide safety guarantees for their events. "Tbilisi Pride calls on the Interior Ministry to immediately begin an investigation into the statement made by Levan Vasadze today," Tbilisi Pride said in a statement. "All elements of a crime are in evidence: a group is being set up to restrict a person's right to move around freely... and restrict his/her freedom," said Tbilisi Pride, adding that Vasadze's call contained direct threat of violence. The Interior Ministry said on June 17 that it had launched an investigation into formation of an illegal paramilitary formation. "I don't know about that knight, but anyone who raises his hand against a police officer will face consequences," Natia Mezvrishvili, the deputy minister of interior, told reporters. Three days earlier, on June 14, thugs attacked LGBTQI rights activists who had gathered in front of the government administration building to demand protection against hate groups during pride week. Police struggled keep the attackers away and made several arrests. The detained assailants were released the following day and were ordered by court to pay fines. If the vigilantes follow through on their threats it would not be the first time Tbilisi has seen such violence. In 2013, a mob led priests through a police cordon to attack a small LGBTQI rights demonstration in the center of the city. Ahead of this year's events, Georgia's highly influential church again condemned LGBTQI Georgians' plans to demonstrate. "The way of life of LGBT individuals is sodomite sin and therefore goes against the Christian faith, traditional religious teachings, and moral values," the patriarchate, the governing body of the Georgian Orthodox Church, said in a June 14 statement. The church distanced itself from any potential violence, but laid the blame for the potential violence on the pride organizers: "When a small group tries to push its point of view on the entire population, it naturally elicits a pushback." Following the June 14 attacks, LGBTQI activists and many opposition leaders criticized the government for failing to help citizens' exercise their rights to freedom of expression. Earlier this month, the Interior Ministry said it could not guarantee safety of the pride participants in an outdoor event, instead offering some indoor alternatives. Giorgi Lomsadze is a journalist based in Tbilisi, and author of Tamada Tales.

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Viktor Hamburger's Study of Central-Peripheral Relations in the Development of Nervous System An important question throughout the history of embryology is whether the formation of a biological structure is predetermined or shaped by its environment. If both intrinsic and environmental controls occur, how exactly do the two processes coordinate in crafting specific forms and functions? When Viktor Hamburger started his PhD study in embryology in the 1920s, few neuroembryologists were investigating how the central neurons innervate peripheral organs. "The Development of the Pronephros during the Embryonic and Early Larval Life of the Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)" (1932), by Rachel L. Carson Rachel L. Carson studied biology at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and graduated in 1933 with an MA upon the completion of her thesis, The Development of the Pronephros during the Embryonic and Early Larval Life of the Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). The research that Carson conducted for this thesis project grounded many of the claims and observations she presented in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. Subject: People, Experiments, Publications Experimental Studies on Germinal Localization (1904), by Edmund B. Wilson At the turn of the twentieth century, Edmund B. Wilson performed experiments to show where germinal matter was located in molluscs. At Columbia University in New York City, New York, Wilson studied what causes cells to differentiate during development. In 1904 he conducted his experiments on molluscs, and he modified the theory about the location of germinal matter in the succeeding years. Wilson and others modified the theory of germinal localization to accommodate results that showed "On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism" (1912), by Alexis Carrel 'On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism' reports Alexis Carrel's 1912 experiments on the maintenance of tissue in culture media. At the time, Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. In his paper, Carrel reported that he had successfully maintained tissue cultures, which derived from connective tissues of developing chicks and other tissue sources, by serially culturing them. "Cellular death in morphogenesis of the avian wing" (1962), by John W. Saunders Jr., et al. In the early 1960s, John W. Saunders Jr., Mary T. Gasseling, and Lilyan C. Saunders in the US investigated how cells die in the developing limbs of chick embryos. They studied when and where in developing limbs many cells die, and they studied the functions of cell death in wing development. At a time when only a few developmental biologists studied cell death, or apoptosis, Saunders and his colleagues showed that researchers could use embryological experiments to uncover the causal mechanisms of apotosis. "The Adaptive Significance of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in a Reptile" (2008), by Daniel Warner and Richard Shine In 2008 researchers Daniel Warner and Richard Shine tested the Charnov-Bull model by conducting experiments on the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus), in Australia. Their results showed that temperature-dependent sex determination(TSD) evolved in this species as an adaptation to fluctuating environmental temperatures. The Charnov-Bull model, proposed by Eric Charnov and James Bull in 1977, described the evolution of TSD, although the model was, for many years, untested. Amphioxus, and the Mosaic Theory of Development (1893), by Edmund Beecher Wilson Edmund Beecher Wilson experimented with Amphioxus (Branchiostoma) embryos in 1892 to identify what caused their cells to differentiate into new types of cells during the process of development. Wilson shook apart the cells at early stages of embryonic development, and he observed the development of the isolated cells. He observed that in the normal development of Amphioxus, all three main types of symmetry, or cleavage patterns observed in embryos, could be found. Wilson proposed a hypothesis that reformed the Mosaic Theory associated with Wilhelm Roux in Germany. The inductive capacity of oral mesenchyme and its role in tooth development (1969-1970), by Edward J. Kollar and Grace R. Baird Between February 1969 and August 1970 Edward Kollar and Grace Baird, from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, published three papers that established the role of the mesenchyme in tooth induction. Drawing upon a history of using tissue interactions to understand differentiation, Kollar and Baird designed their experiments to understand how differentiated structures become specified. Their work overturned a widely accepted model that epithelium controls the identity of the structure, a phenomenon called structural specificity. Management of Myelomeningocele Study Clinical Trial (2003-2010) From February 2003 to December 2010, researchers of the Management of Myelomeningocele Study, or MOMS, clinical trial compared the safety and efficacy of different treatments for a specific type of spina bifida, called myelomeningocele. Myelomeningocele, the most frequent and severe form of spina bifida, is a condition in which the bony spinal column does not develop correctly, which causes an opening of the spine, exposure of the spinal cord, and formation of a small sac containing cerebrospinal fluid. "Congenital Club Foot in the Human Fetus" (1980), by Ernesto Ippolito and Ignacio Ponseti In 1980, Ernesto Ippolito and Ignacio Ponseti published their results on a histological study they performed on congenital club foot in human fetuses. The researchers examined the feet of four aborted fetuses and compared the skeletal tissues from healthy feet to those affected by congenital club foot. Infants born with club foot are born with one or both feet rigidly twisted inwards and upwards, making typical movement painful and challenging. "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro" (1932), by Conrad Hal Waddington Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro," published in 1932 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, compares the differences in the development of birds and amphibians. Previous experiments focused on the self differentiation of individual tissues in birds, but Waddington wanted to study induction in greater detail. The limit to these studies had been the amount of time an embryo could be successfully cultivated ex vivo. Alec Jeffreys's Experiments to Identify Individuals by Their Beta-globin Genes (1977-1979) In a series of experiments in the late 1970s, Alec J. Jeffreys in the UK and Richard A. Flavell in the Netherlands developed a technique to detect variations in the DNA of different individuals. They compared fragments of DNA from individuals' beta-globin genes, which produce a protein in hemoglobin. Previously, to identify biological material, scientists focused on proteins rather than on genes. But evidence about proteins enabled scientists only to exclude, but not to identify, individuals as the sources of the biological samples. Hox Genes and the Evolution of Vertebrate Axial Morphology Experiment (1995) In 1995, researchers Ann Burke, Craig Nelson, Bruce Morgan, and Cliff Tabin in the US studied the genes that regulate the construction of vertebra in developing chick and mouse embryos, they showed similar patterns of gene regulation across both species, and they concluded that those patterns were inherited from an ancestor common to all vertebrate animals. The group analyzed the head-to-tail (anterior-posterior) axial development of vertebrates, as the anterior-posterior axis showed variation between species over the course of evolutionary time. The Effects of Gene Regulation on Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans (2003) In 2003, molecular biology and genetics researchers Coleen T. Murphy, Steven A. McCarroll, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Andrew Fraser, Ravi S. Kamath, Julie Ahringer, Hao Li, and Cynthia Kenyon conducted an experiment that investigated the cellular aging in, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) nematodes. The researchers investigated the interactions between the transcription factor DAF-16 and the genes that regulate the production of an insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1-like) protein related to the development, reproduction, and aging in C. elegans. The Genetic Control and Cytoplasmic Expression of 'Inducibility' in the synthesis of B-galactosidase" (1959), by Arthur B. Pardee, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod Between 1957 and 1959, Arthur Pardee, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod conducted a set of experiments at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, that was later called the PaJaMa Experiments, a moniker derived from the researchers' last names. In these experiments, they described how genes of a species of single-celled bacteria, called Escherichia coli (E. coli), controlled the processes by which enzymes were produced in those bacteria. "Experiments on Embryonic Induction III. A Note on Inductions by Chick Primitive Streak Transplanted to the Rabbit Embryo" (1934), by Conrad Hal Waddington Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on Embryonic Induction III," published in 1934 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, describes the discovery that the primitive streak induces the mammalian embryo. Waddington's hypothesis was that a transplanted primitive streak could induce neural tissue in the ectoderm of the rabbit embryo. The primitive streak defines the axis of an embryo and is capable of inducing the differentiation of various tissues in a developing embryo during gastrulation. "Developmental Capacity of Nuclei Transplanted from Keratinized Skin Cells of Adult Frogs" (1975), by John Gurdon, Ronald Laskey, and O. Raymond Reeves In 1975 John Gurdon, Ronald Laskey, and O. Raymond Reeves published "Developmental Capacity of Nuclei Transplanted from Keratinized Skin Cells of Adult Frogs," in the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. Their article was the capstone of a series of experiments performed by Gurdon during his time at Oxford and Cambridge, using the frog species Xenopus laevis. Gurdon's first experiment in 1958 showed that the nuclei of Xenopus cells maintained their ability to direct normal development when transplanted. "In vitro Experiments on the Effects of Mouse Sarcomas 180 and 37 on the Spinal and Sympathetic Ganglia of the Chick Embryo" (1954), by Rita Levi-Montalcini, Viktor Hamburger, and Hertha Meyer "In vitro Experiments on the Effects of Mouse Sarcomas 180 and 37 on the Spinal and Sympathetic Ganglia of the Chick Embryo" were experiments conducted by Rita Levi-Montalcini in conjunction with Viktor Hamburger and Hertha Meyer and published in Cancer Research in 1954. In this series of experiments, conducted at the University of Brazil, Levi-Montalcini demonstrated increased nerve growth by introducing specific tumors (sarcomas) to chick ganglia. Ganglia are clusters of nerve cells, from which nerve fibers emerge. Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Reptiles The sex of a reptile embryo partly results from the production of sex hormones during development, and one process to produce those hormones depends on the temperature of the embryo's environment. The production of sex hormones can result solely from genetics or from genetics in combination with the influence of environmental factors. In genotypic sex determination, also called genetic or chromosomal sex determination, an organism's genes determine which hormones are produced. "The Developmental Capacity of Nuclei Taken from Intestinal Epithelium Cells of Feeding Tadpoles" (1962), by John B. Gurdon In 1962 researcher John Bertrand Gurdon at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, conducted a series of experiments on the developmental capacity of nuclei taken from intestinal epithelium cells of feeding tadpoles. In the experiments, Gurdon conducted nuclear transplantation, or cloning, of differentiated cells, or cells that have already specialized to become one cell type or another, in tadpoles. Gurdon's experiment showed that differentiated adult cells could be induced to an undifferentiated state, where they could once again become multiple cell types. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Experiments by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka in 2006 and 2007 In 2006, Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka reprogrammed mice fibroblast cells, which can produce only other fibroblast cells, to become pluripotent stem cells, which have the capacity to produce many different types of cells. Takahashi and Yamanaka also experimented with human cell cultures in 2007. Each worked at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. They called the pluripotent stem cells that they produced induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) because they had induced the adult cells, called differentiated cells, to become pluripotent stem cells through genetic manipulation.

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1983 Pot Black The 1983 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. 8 players were competing in 2 four player groups. The matches are one-frame shoot-outs in the group stages, 2 frame aggregate scores in the semi-finals and the best of 3 frames in the final. Pot Black 83 late December 1982 (Broadcast 10 January-11 April 1983) Pebble Mill Studios Non-Ranking event Winner's share Highest break Ray Reardon (91) Steve Davis Ray Reardon Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Monday 10 January 1983 [1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and John Williams as referee. First time in Pot Black this year are Tony Knowles who failed to make the semi-finals and Jimmy White who managed it before losing to Steve Davis. Davis went on to win the title beating twice champion Ray Reardon 2-0 to win his second title and the fourth man to retain it.[2][3] Main drawEdit Group 1Edit Steve Davis 1-0 Ray Reardon 10 January 1983 Kirk Stevens 0-1 Willie Thorne 17 January 1983 Kirk Stevens 24 January 1983 Ray Reardon 1-0 Willie Thorne 14 February 1983 Kirk Stevens 14 March 1983 Alex Higgins 0-1 Tony Knowles 14 January 1983 Eddie Charlton 1-0 Jimmy White 21 January 1983 Alex Higgins 7 February 1983 Tony Knowles 0-1 Jimmy White 21 February 1983 Jimmy White 7 March 1983 Eddie Charlton 21 March 1983 Knockout stageEdit Semi-finals 28 March and 4 April 1983) Final (11 April 1983) Steve Davis 1 Jimmy White 0 Ray Reardon 0 Eddie Charlton 0 ^ "BBC Television - 10 January 1983 - Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2017. ^ "BBC Television - 11 April 1983 - Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017. ^ "CueTracker - 1983 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics". cuetracker.net. Retrieved 25 February 2017. Retrieved from ""

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